Tshepo Monica Shabangu

Tshepo is a legal professional with significant experience in managing the commercial and intellectual property portfolios of blue-chip companies, both locally and internationally. She also has extensive experience in corporate governance.

She was previously the Chairman of the Anglo Inyosi Coal Community Trust and a Director of Inyosi (Pty) Ltd, the B-BBEE partner of Anglo Coal Ltd. Tshepo resigned from these positions in November 2011 and sat as a Trustee of one of Royal Bafokeng’s employee trusts. She is the past President of the South African Institute of Intellectual Property Law and sat as a Trustee of the Legal Resources Trust. She was previously a member of the Ethics Committee of the Law Society of South Africa and Company Law Committee of the Law Society of the Northern Provinces. She also sat as a Council Member of the now defunct Law Society of the Northern Provinces (LSNP), a statutory body which governed the attorneys profession.

She is a Council representative of the Law Society of South Africa at the International Bar Association (IBA). She is currently an Officer of the Bar Issues Commission and member of the Future of Legal Commission. She was also a member of the African Regional Forum, Policy and Credentials Committee of the IBA. She was selected as one of the World Intellectual Property (WIPR) Influential Women in Intellectual Property in 2019 and was awarded the Women in Law Award for Best Corporate Practising Lawyer 2019. Tshepo was named Law Professional of the year 2019/2020 period. She was listed as one of the World Intellectual Regulatory Review (WIPE) 2021 leaders and included in the Best Lawyer Intellectual Property Law in South Africa 2022 list.