Meet the team:

Lizle Louw (BCom, LLB)

Editor-in-Chief of Fleet Street Publications’ Labour Law for Managers Loose Leaf Service.

Lizle is an admitted attorney and conveyancer.  She is a director at Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs in the employment law department. Lizle specialises in employment law, occupational safety and mine health and safety.  She acts for a diverse range of clients in the mining and retail industries.  Lizle’s general practice includes litigation in the CCMA, Bargaining Councils, Labour Court and Labour Appeal Court, drafting of employment and safety related policies and training of line managers on all employment related matters.  Lizle holds the following qualifications: BComm Law (University of Johannesburg) LLB (University of Johannesburg) Certificate in International Criminal Law (University of Antwerp)

Taryn Strugnell

Managing Editor of Fleet Street Publications’ Labour Law for Managers and the Practical Guide to Human Resources Management.

In her experience as managing editor, Michelle  works with many of South Africa’s top labour law and HR experts.  It’s access like this that enables her to give  you any pertinent information,  ensure you are 100% up-to-date with labour law and that you are benefitting from the latest tips, tools and guidelines.

Here are just a few of the experts Michelle deals with on a daily basis:

Ivan Israelstam (BA Hons., Adv Dip (IPM))
Labour law consultant and writer for the Workplace section of The Star Newspaper

Alan Rycroft (BA, LLB, LLM (London)) 
Professor and attorney

Barney Jordaan (BA LLB (cum laude) and Doctorate in Law (LLD))
Labour law practitioner; extraordinary professor, University of Stellenbosch Business School; visiting professor, University of Cape Town GSB

Anton Steenkamp (BA, LLM, LLM (Pret), LLM (summa cum laude) (Notre Dame, USA) 
Practising attorney, partner in the employment law department (Bowman Gilfillan)

Liezel Blignaut (M Comm Personnel Management)
Director, Human Capital Business Solutions (Pty) Ltd. Registered Master HR Practitioner with the SABPP

Janine Nieuwoudt
HR and strategic management specialist and registered psychometrist with the Health Professions Council of South Africa.

Dr Kent McNamara (MA PhD (Wits))
Industrial Anthropologist: change management, team building, organisation culture, employee communications, diversity awareness, employment equity and corporate organisation redesign.