President Zuma grants twelve Advocates the Senior Counsel Status

President Jacob Zuma has in terms of section 84(2)(k) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, granted  Senior Counsel Status to the following  twelve (12) Advocates: 

a) Advocate Thys Strydom, with precedence next after Advocate Alan Christopher Dodson SC;

b) Advocate Michiel Daniel Du Preez, with precedence next after Advocate Thys Strydom;

c) Advocate Marc Leonard Haskins, with precedence next after Advocate Michiel Daniel Du Preez;

d) Advocate Gerhardus Bartholomeus Botha, with precedence next after Advocate  Marc Leonard Haskins; 

e) Advocate Michael Hendricks Mabena, with precedence next after  Advocate Gerhardus Bartholomeus Botha;

f) Advocate Nicoline Janse Van Nieuwenhuizen, with precedence next after Advocate Michael Hendrick Mabena;

g) Advocate Soraya Khatija Hassim, with precedence next after Advocate Nicoline Janse Van Nieuwenhuizen;

h) Advocate Andrew Papi Laka, with precedence next after Advocate Soraya Khatija Hassim;

i) Advocate Lesego Matlhodi Montsho, with precedence next after Advocate Andrew Papi Laka;

j) Advocate Petrus Gerhardus Cilliers, with precedence next after Advocate Lesego Matlhodi Montsho;

k) Advocate Moses Mphaga, with precedence next after Advocate Petrus Gerhardus Cilliers; and

l) Advocate Abram Thami Ncongwane, with precedence next after Advocate Moses Mphaga.

The President congratulated them in their new status and wishes them well in their practices. 

Statement issued by Mac Maharaj, The Presidency, December 19 2011

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