Bulelwa Mabasa

• Land Reform
• Mining & Resources
• Sustainability

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

• Land Reform, Redistribution, Restitution and Land Claims litigation
• Dispute Resolution
• Administrative Constitutional Law
• Mining
• Customary and Communal Land Rights Law

Advised / Represented / Acted on behalf of:

• high-profile clients in disputes pertaining to land reform, restitution, administrative law, such as tenders and procurement , eviction law and mining litigation  in the High Court, and Supreme Court of Appeal and Constitutional Courts.

• 2019: Head of Land Reforem Restitution & Tenure Practice.
• 2013: Postgraduate Certificate in Land and Water Law, University of the Witwatersrand – Nelson Mandela Institute
• 2011: Postgraduate Certificate in Prospecting and Mining, University of the Witwatersrand – Nelson Mandela Institute
• 2008: Director, Werksmans
• 2004: Admitted as an Attorney
• 2002: University of the Witwatersrand
• 2000: BA, University of the Witwatersrand

• Bulelwa authored a memoir titled My Land Obsession which been shortlisted for Best Non-Fiction for 2022 by the Sunday Times Literary Awards.
• Bulelwa was awarded Best in Land Rights (First Runner Up) and Best in Thought Leadership, Innovation and Academia (Second Runner Up), at the Women in Law (WOZA) awards ceremony, that was hosted in July 2022.
• Bulelwa was awarded Best Woman Lawyer in Land Rights at the Women in Law (WOZA) awards ceremony during August 2019, based on her contribution not only to Werksmans in this sector but also, the key role Bulelwa plays in Land Reform policy in South Africa having been appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa to his Land Advisory Panel.
• Bulelwa was appointed in 2018 as one of the panel members on the Expert Advisory Panel to the President on Land Reform. She is the only attorney on the panel.
• Author of Land in South Africa: Contested Meanings and Nation-Formation.