Our Team
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Our directors, associates and consultants are well-known and respected as experts in the telecommunications industry. Read more about each of our valued people below.
About Anton Kotzé
Anton’s experience of practising law and being involved in the management of large and start-up ISP businesses gives him a unique blend of telecommunications law and general commercial experience that allows him to understand his clients’ requirements and to apply the law to such requirements with a pragmatic approach.
Anton holds an LLB.
Anton has been admitted to practise as an attorney in the High Court of SA, appearing on the practising roll of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces.
About Sumaiyah Makda
Sumaiyah has extensive experience in advising on the commercial and regulatory aspects of providing ICT and telecommunications services in South Africa which fall under the Electronic Communications Act.
This includes advising and assisting local and international clients with transfers of Individual and Class licences, as well as all other aspects of licensing – registrations, notifications, amendments, surrenders, and applications and transfers of numbers.
Sumaiyah has a focus on regulatory compliance for South African licensees, including the financial reporting compliance obligations. She liaises closely with ICASA in this regard, to ensure that she keeps current with the ever-changing regulatory landscape. Sumaiyah handles the ICASA regulatory compliance obligations for several clients, including locally-owned and foreign-owned licensees. She is also skilled at representations before the ICASA Complaints and Compliance Committee, having appeared on behalf of several companies.
Sumaiyah holds an LLB, a Postgraduate Diploma in Cyber Law, an LLM in Information Communication Technology and is a Notary Public.
Sumaiyah has been admitted to practise as an attorney in the High Court of SA, appearing on the practising roll of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces.
About Simoné Warber
Simoné has considerable experience in High Court litigation, and since relocating to Johannesburg she has gained extensive experience in negotiating contracts specific to the ICT industry.
She has a varied employment history which has taken her around the world, including a couple of stints on an oil rig in the North Sea. Most importantly, Simoné has a wealth of experience in the legal industry, having steadily worked her way up from a legal receptionist fresh out of school to a well-travelled, ambitious law student cum litigation secretary, and finally to becoming a well-rounded attorney with a sharp legal mind and an eye for detail.
Simoné is an avid supporter of women advancing in the legal and business worlds and has been a member of the executive committee of the Pietermaritzburg Women’s Legal Association.
Simoné holds a LLB and is an admitted attorney, appearing on the practising roll of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces. She has been granted Right of Appearance in the High Court of South Africa
About Dominic Cull
Dominic has extensive experience in advising on the commercial and regulatory aspects of new technology, broadcasting, and electronic communications ventures for local and international companies and policy and regulation in the ICT and telecommunications sectors, having spent 14 years advising the public and private sector on ICT legal issues.
Dominic is involved at all stages of the communications law and regulation-making process and liaises closely with, inter alia, the Independant Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA), the Department of Communications, the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, SAPS Cybercrime Division, National Gambling Board, Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services, Portfolio Committee on Telecommunications and Postal Services and the Film and Publications Board on an ongoing basis.
Dominic holds a B.Bus.Sci, an LLB, and an LLM in Information Communication Technology.
Dominic has been admitted to practise as an attorney in the High Court of SA, appearing on the practising roll of the Cape Law Society.
About Ferdi Myburgh
Ferdi has extensive experience in the commercial and fiduciary fields of the law, including contracts, commercial litigation as well as property law. Having worked for more than 15 years in the fiduciary industry he is also well equipped to advise clients on the law of trusts and deceased and insolvent estates.
Ferdi holds a B.Proc, an Mcomm (Business Management) and Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Planning, and will be admitted as a conveyancer later this year.
Ferdi has been admitted to practise as an attorney in the High Court of SA, appearing on the practising roll of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces.