Brigitta Mangale
Brigitta Mangale is a Director in the Pro Bono & Human Rights Practice. Brigitta is responsible for the management of the firm's Cape Town based Practice, as well as overseeing the Cape Town office's pro bono matters and CSR contributions.
About Brigitta
About Brigitta
Brigitta is passionate about the advancement of women's rights and women's issues and is building a specialization in this area. She is also passionate about the enforcement and development of land rights. She is currently pursuing a constitutional challenge to legislation with a view to promote and extend the protection afforded to victims of all forms of sexual abuse. She is also separately pursuing a constitutional challenge to legislation with the intention to develop our law in a manner that appropriately extends the recognition of informal and indigenous land rights. Brigitta's practice also includes matters focused on community development and upliftment, and the promotion of meaningful transformation, all of which include human rights and public interest imperatives.
Brigitta was appointed Director in 2022.
Credentials
Credentials
Education
- LLB UCT (2011)
Languages
Languages
- English
About Brigitta
Brigitta is passionate about the advancement of women's rights and women's issues and is building a specialization in this area. She is also passionate about the enforcement and development of land rights. She is currently pursuing a constitutional challenge to legislation with a view to promote and extend the protection afforded to victims of all forms of sexual abuse. She is also separately pursuing a constitutional challenge to legislation with the intention to develop our law in a manner that appropriately extends the recognition of informal and indigenous land rights. Brigitta's practice also includes matters focused on community development and upliftment, and the promotion of meaningful transformation, all of which include human rights and public interest imperatives.
Brigitta was appointed Director in 2022.
Credentials
Education
- LLB UCT (2011)
Languages
- English
News
Striving to honour and empower women this Women’s Day, and year-round
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Long walk to freedom, and longer still to go
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16 Days of Activism: A call for business activism
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Minister of Police’s attempt to condone his nearly three-year delay of litigation dismissed with costs
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The decriminalisation of cannabis use and/or possession for minors: A significant shift in South African drug law reform
In 2019, the Constitutional Court in Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development and Others v Prince and Others (1) SA 14 (CC), partially confirmed the judgment in Prince v...
Justice and Public Interest on the Mic – Episode 1
Since 2013, Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr's (CDH) Pro Bono & Human Rights Practice (Pro Bono Practice) has been at the heart of our firm's commitment to making a real difference.
30 years of democracy: A conversation on the role of business and civil society
The upcoming Freedom Day on 27 April 2024 marks 30 years since our country's first democratic vote. In this episode, produced in commemoration of Freedom Day, CDH Pro Bono & Human...
Beyond 16 Days Episode 2: The importance of Human Rights Day and exploring constitutional damages as an effective remedy
In episode two of our Beyond 16 Days Series, Director Brigitta Mangale and Senior Associate Elgene Roos in the Pro Bono & Humans Rights practice unpack the importance of Human Rights...
Beyond 16 Days | Working on women's rights, all year round
Director Brigitta Mangale and Senior Associate Elgene Roos in the Pro Bono & Humans Rights practice are both passionate about women's rights and the fight against violence for women.
WOZA Podcast Two - The challenges women in law face today
Join CDH Conversations as we continue to commemorate 100 years of women in law. This series of three episodes, hosted in collaboration with WOZA Women in Law explores the history and...