Craig Bosch
Formerly a senior lecturer in labour law, University of the Western Cape (LLM and LLB courses), Craig is a part-time senior commissioner at the CCMA, and panellist the Clothing, the Education, the Metal and Engineering Industries and South African Local Government Bargaining Councils. He is also a panellist (arbitrator and mediator) for Tokiso and IR Change.
Craig has presented papers at various local and international conferences and has published numerous journal articles. He is the co-author of Employment Rights and Business Transfers in South Africa and Labour Relations Law. His main areas of research interest are the law relating to the employment consequences of business transfers, the contract of employment, age discrimination and unfair dismissal.
Having studied in Stellenbosch, Craig is a wine enthusiast and is often found amongst the vineyards on free weekends.
Barney Jordaan
Barney Jordaan holds a doctorate in law from Stellenbosch University and was admitted as an attorney of the Supreme Court of South Africa in 1982. He was professor of law at Stellenbosch University until 1997, when entered full-time practice as a specialist in the areas of employment law and labour relations, but later also in the areas of negotiation, mediation and conflict management.
He is currently professor extraordinaire at the Graduate School of Business of Stellenbosch University (USB) where he teaches on the MBA and executive education programmes and visiting lecturer at the Graduate School of Business of UCT. He also heads up the USB’s Africa Centre for Dispute Settlement. The Centre is an African hub for academic research, development and teaching of dispute settlement theory and practice.
Apart from his academic involvement, Barney is a director and co-founder of Maserumule Consulting, a leading firm of employment relations, employment law and organisational growth specialists, with offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg. He has presented the Juta Annual Labour Law Update for the past 12 years with some of the country’s leading labour lawyers.
He is a senior arbitrator and mediator, accredited with the International Mediation Institute in the Hague, and chair of the International Bar Association’s mediation across border sub-committee. He was recently appointed as part-time consultant to the World Bank Group’s Office of Mediation. During 1996-1999 he was part-time senior commissioner at the CCMA and part of the training panel for the first intake of commissioners. He appears regularly on regional and national radio and has published widely and is the author and co-author of a number of leading academic and popular works.
