Welcome To The Department of Mercantile and Private Law

Adv. Gideon Joubert Senior Lecturer Interim Head of Department, Mercantile and Private Law Faculty of Management, Commerce, and Law University of Venda Tel: 015 962 8099 Fax: 015 962 8045

The Department of Mercantile and Private Law is one of the two Departments in the School of Law responsible for offering the LLB undergraduate law programme and post-graduate law study options.

 The Department houses all the Mercantile Law undergraduate modules that cover legal aspects of business, labour, commerce and finance. Subject matter taught includes business entities, banking, tax, insolvency, insurance, international trade and labour law.

 Subject matter taught in the Private Law undergraduate modules include persons and the family, succession, delict, contract and property law. 

 Undergraduate modules that provide for areas of overlap between Mercantile and Private Law or specialisation include sale and lease, administration of deceased’s estates, alternative dispute resolution, competition law and intellectual property law.

 The Department of Mercantile and Private Law is further part of the School of Law post-graduate studies programmes. We offer the Masters of Laws (LWMML) by research, as well as Doctoral degrees in either Mercantile Law (Doctor of Philosophy in Mercantile Law; LWPPLW) or Private Law (Doctor of Philosophy in Private Law; LWPPPL).   

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Staff Members for Mercantile and Private Law:

Name: Dr Carlos Joel Tchawouo Mbiada
Designation: Senior Lecturer
Qualification: LLM (UNIVERSITY OF NORTH-WEST), LLB (FOREIGN PSE INSTITUTIONS), DOC (UNIVERSITY OF NORTH-WEST)
Telephone: 0159628000
Email: carlos.tchawouombiada@univen.ac.za
Office: SCHOOL OF LAW BUILDING Building, Office Number , Floor Number

Name: Ms Livhuwani Sosanah Lavhengwa
Designation: Senior Lecturer In Private Law
Qualification: LLM (UNIVERSITY OF VENDA), LLB (null)
Telephone: 0159628000
Email: Livhuwani.Lavhengwa@univen.ac.za
Office: Building, Office Number , Floor Number

Name: Dr Thivhusiwi Maureen Sikhitha
Designation: Senior Lecturer In Private Law
Qualification: BAHON (RHODES UNIVERSITY), MAA (FOREIGN PSE INSTITUTIONS), LLB (University of Venda PRODI41), LLM (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA), PHD (UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO)
Telephone: 0159628000
Email: thivhusiwi.sikhitha@univen.ac.za
Office: SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES BLOCK C Building, Office Number , Floor Number

Name: Adv. Tshepo Cyril Phanyane
Designation: Lecturer
Qualification: LLB (UFH), LLM (UP)
Telephone: 0159629414
Email: Tshepo.phanyane@univen.ac.za
Office: Mobile offices complex, office F1

Name: Dr.  Chiedza Simbo
Designation: Senior Lecturer
Qualification: LLM (UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN), BAHON (UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE)
Telephone: 0159628000
Email: chiedza.simbo@univen.ac.za
Office: SCHOOL OF LAW BUILDING Building, Office Number , Floor Number

Name: Ms Cynthia Jose Merrill Masingita Mkhabele
Designation: Lecturer In Private Law
Qualification: BALAW (UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO), MAD (UNIVERSITY OF LIMPOPO)
Telephone: 0159628000
Email: cynthia.mkhabele@univen.ac.za
Office: SCHOOL OF LAW BUILDING Building, Office Number , Floor Number

Mr Nkosinathi Mzolo
Senior Lecturer: University of Venda.
Qualifications:(LLM) Master of Laws (UKZN); LLB Bachelor of Laws (UKZN) & (BA Law) Bachelor of Arts in law (UKZN).
Areas of expertise: Constitutional law, Competition Law and Customary law
Telephone: 0159628000
Email: Nkosinathi.mzolo@univen.ac.za
Office: SCHOOL OF LAW BUILDING Building, Office Number , Floor Number

Dr Mantwa Madiba
Designation: Lecturer – Department of Mercantile and Private Law –
Faculty of Management, Commerce and Law
LLB (University of Pretoria); LLM (University of Kwazulu Natal); SJD (Wake Forest University); Attorney of the High Court of South Africa.
Email: Mantwa,madiba@univen.ac.za Office: L013 Tel: 015 962 8248

Name: Mr Ntumbululo Livingstone Nyathela
Designation: Senior Lecturer
Qualification: BA (null), MAD (null)
Telephone: 0159628000
Email: Livingstone.nyathela@univen.ac.za
Office: Building, School of Law , Floor Number: Ground Floor