Key Responsibilities :

Spearheaded the company’s legal and regulatory strategy, ensuring compliance with complex frameworks including mining-related environmental, safety, and land use regulations.

Provided commercially viable and comprehensive legal advice across commercial, regulatory and compliance areas to the Managing Director, South African Executive Management Team, UK Group Leadership and cross-functional teams on legal risk in telecoms land infrastructure projects, including negotiation and drafting of Master Lease Agreements, Power-as-a-Service Agreements, and BuildOperate-Transfer Contracts.

Led engagement with South African regulatory bodies (ICASA, CIPC, SARS), ensuring alignment with B-BBEE, environmental standards, and labour law compliance.

Oversaw legal aspects of land use rights, environmental impact assessments, and local authority approvals, ensuring smooth execution of infrastructure rollouts across multiple provinces.

Managed complex litigation and dispute resolution matters, including land access, environmental permits, and contractor claims.

Delivered compliance training on fraud risk, anti-bribery, anti-corruption, and stakeholder ethics, embedding a culture of legal integrity across the organisation People Development Responsibilities

Providing line management and day-to day management to direct reports.

Overseeing the development and performance of direct reports of against key performance indicators for the legal team through coaching and mentoring; and

Development of a legal succession plan in conjunction with Human Resources to put in place development actions of legal team members. Corporate Governance and Compliance Responsibilities

Appointed Company Secretary of all 5 South African subsidiaries.

Appointed Deputy Information Officer with the Information Regulator.

Ensuring the adherence of all company legal functions and responsibilities to South African company law, ICASA regulatory requirements and aligning same with UK Group Company policies.

Providing ethics management and corporate governance within both internal and external stakeholder including providing the following compliance training to the company:

Fraud Risk Management Training;

Conflict of Interest Training;

Whistleblowing Training;

Bribery and Corruption Training;

Providing support in the drafting and review of general management policies; and

Responsible for South African compliance portfolio and adherence of Company with UK Group Company Code of Conduct and Conflict of Interest policies.