Matshego Ramagaga is the founder and director of Matshego Ramagaga Attorneys. A qualified senior practising attorney with thirty years’ experience. She commenced practice under the name and style of Matshego Ramagaga Attorneys in April 1991 and continues to serve as such to date.
Ms Ramagaga served the Department of Justice from 1983 to 1989, serving first as the public prosecutor in both the district and regional courts for three years, and then as Magistrate of the district criminal courts and civil courts respectively. As a prosecutor she gained vast experience in the field of investigations, her functions included giving investigations guidance to the police in preparation for a solid case for prosecution. As a magistrate she presided over a wide range of cases and thus gained a wealth of experience in litigation matters.
She served as an acting judge in the High Court of South Africa: Pretoria Division, Johannesburg Local Division and the North Division during the period 2003 to 2011. She has been serving as a member of the Investigating, Disciplinary and Mediation Committee of the Legal Practice Council since 2019. She has been a member of Companies Tribunal from 2011 to date. Her functions include mediation, arbitration and adjudication of companies’ disputes.
Ms Ramagaga is a member of the Black Lawyers’ Association – Legal Education Centre training faculty. She has been involved with the centre from around 1990, initially as a trainee and later as a trainer. Her responsibilities include developing the training curriculum on different areas of Law and trial skills, as well as training candidate attorneys and legal professionals on effective trial skills and techniques, motion proceedings in the High Court and Insolvency Law.
