COUNCIL

The Sol Plaatje University Council is the ultimate governing body within the University. It acts as the custodian of corporate governance for the institution
and is therefore responsible for ensuring that all related governance functions are performed effectively.

This responsibility is consistent, too, with King IV (specifically, Principle 5 of the King IV Code on Corporate Governance). Council is, therefore, ultimately responsible for the overall achievement of the University’s mission, vision and purpose.

Click here to view the current composition of Council, Committees of Council and Executive Management.

Judge M V Phatshoane - Chairperson: Council, EXCO, REMCO

Judge Mmathebe Violet Phatshoane served on the Sol Plaatje University Council since June 2014 and has played an integral role in the development of the University. She is the Deputy Judge President of the Northern Cape Division of the High Court and is also an Acting Judge of Appeal at the Supreme Court of Appeal, a position she will hold until September 2021.

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Judge Phatshoane previously acted as Deputy President of the Labour Court and Labour Court of Appeal. She has made rulings on labour law, private law, civil procedure, and criminal law.

After being admitted as an attorney in 1999, she set-up her own, highly successful, law firm Phatshoane Henney Group Inc in 2002. She also served part-time at the CCMA from 1999 to 2004 and lectured at the University of the Free State from 2006 to 2009. In 2012 she was the recipient of the Alumni “Extraordinary Achiever” Award from the University of the Free State.

Judge Phatshoane is a member of the National Judicial Case Flow Management Committee and a member of the South African Chapter of International Women Judges and served as its Vice-President from 2012 to 2014.

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