Nicole Fritz
Executive Director

Nicole Fritz is the Executive Director of the Southern Africa Litigation Centre. She obtained her LL.B. (cum laude) from the University of the Witwatersrand and thereafter completed an LL.M. in International Legal Studies at NYU Law School as a Hauser Global Scholar.

She has taught constitutional and international law at the University of the Witwatersrand’s Law School and human rights law at Fordham Law School in New York. She has also worked at Fordham’s Crowley Program in International Human Rights. She served as law clerk to Justice Richard Goldstone at South Africa’s Constitutional Court. Currently, she is an extraodinary lecturer at the University of Pretoria’s Centre for Human Rights, on the advisory board of the African Human Rights Law Reports and the editorial board of the Constitutional Court Review.

Lloyd Kuveya
Project Lawyer, Media Defence

After graduating from the Judicial College of Zimbabwe, Lloyd Kuveya worked has a Magistrate for fours years. He holds a LLB from the University of Zimbabwe, and completed a LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation at the Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria in South Africa. Lloyd has been a member of the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights since 2002 and completed an internship with them in his final year of studying at the University of Zimbabwe.

Before joining SALC, Priti Patel was an attorney in the Law and Security Program at Human Rights First. In that capacity, she led field missions to Afghanistan, monitored military commission trials at Guantanamo Bay, and worked on amicus briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court. She also clerked for former Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson and Justice Catherine O’Regan on the Constitutional Court of South Africa from 2002-2003 and was a Fulbright scholar in Durban, South Africa, where she taught history at the University of Durban-Westville and conducted research on African-Indian relations in Durban.

Priti graduated with a B.A. in History from Columbia University in 1997 and received her law degree from New York University School of Law in 2002.

Matilda Lasseko
Right to Information Law Fellow

Matilda graduated with an LLB (cum laude) from the University of Pretoria in 2007.  She received a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Programme (DAAD) in 2008 to pursue an LLM in Human Rights and Democratisation in Africa with the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria in conjunction with the University of Ghana, Legon.  She served as an intern at Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative Accra, Ghana between August and December 2008.  In 2009 she was contracted by the International Commission of Jurists-Kenya to write a chapter in the Judicial Watch Review Series on the transitional justice process in Kenya.  Immediately prior to joining SALC, she served as Law Researcher to Justice Zak Yacoob at the Constitutional Court of South Africa.

Ethel Maphiwa-Ndlovu
Office Manager