Sesi Baloyi is currently an advocate and senior Counsel in Victoria Mxenge Group of advocates. She was admitted as an attorney in 1997 and a member of the Bar in 2005. She worked as a researcher to Justice Albie Sachs at the Constitutional Court. Her specialities include Administrative Law, Commercial Litigation, Constitutional Law, Competition Law, Construction and Engineering, Employment and Labour law, General Litigation, and Local Government Law.
Baloyi rose to public prominence in her role on the Judicial Service Commission (JSC), the body responsible for interviewing judge candidates, to which President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed her in 2022. Now appointed to the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Criminality, Political Interference, and Corruption in the Criminal Justice System, better known as the Madlanga Commission, It is now Baloyi’s job, alongside fellow commissioners to sift through the testimony and evidence presented at the commission and make recommendations that could lead to criminal prosecutions of some of South Africa’s most powerful figures.
