Mr Shaun Bergover is an attorney, lecturer and Director of the Rhodes University Law Clinic. He obtained his LLB and LLM from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His LLM mini thesis analysed the 2017 regulations allowing legal trade of rhino horns.

Having completed his legal training (articles of clerkship) at the Legal Resources Centre - a public-interest law clinic in South Africa, and now an attorney at the Law Clinic, he is experienced in High Court and Magistrates Court litigation and is active in community education and awareness.

He works on litigious and non-litigious matters on behalf of indigent members of the Makhanda and surrounding communities. When wearing his academic hat, Shaun teaches Legal Practice and Environmental law at the Law Faculty. Shaun has also served as an acting Magistrate at the Makhanda Magistrates Court where he presided in family and criminal matters and is currently a Commissioner at the Small Claims Court, serving the Makhanda and Port Alfred courts in the Eastern Cape.

Shaun is currently the Vice-President of the South African University Law Clinics Association (SAULCA) Executive Committee and a member of the Rhodes University Law Clinic Management Committee.

Chrisna started her legal career at the Law Clinic as a candidate attorney. She firmly believes that clinicians have the most gratifying job as we provide hope and access to justice to those who would not otherwise be able to afford it. She has a masters degree in Labour Law.

Her areas of interest includes: civil litigation and specifically matters affecting the care and well-being of children.University Law Clinic (and position): North-West University, Potchefstroom Law Clinic, Director.

Years in practice: 10 years

Interest in law clinics: Clinical legal education, access to justice, justice for children, staff development.

Interest in social justice/ students: inculcating awareness of social justice issues experienced by poor and vulnerable members of society.

Why SAULCA: to provide a support base for all Law Clinics and clinicians thereby ensuring that all law graduates have adequate knowledge and practical experience for entry into the legal profession.

Something interesting about yourself: I am passionate about nature conservation and am a member of the SANParks Honorary Rangers. I also  coach Ringball at the North-West University and district and national level.

Mr. Eddie Hanekom is the current Director of the University of Pretoria Law Clinic. He holds the degrees B Juris (NWU) LLB LLM (with distinction) (UP), and the LSSA Certificate in Divorce Mediation. He is an admitted attorney of the High Court of South Africa with right of appearance in the High Court obtained in 1996. He is practicing as a member of the Gauteng office of the Legal Practice Council.

He started his articles as a candidate attorney at the firm of Couzyn, Hertzog and Horak and completed it at Dr. P.J. Kotzé and partners in Pretoria. In 1991 he was admitted as an attorney of the High Court of South Africa. Thereafter he was employed by the Multilateral Motor Vehicle
Accident Fund (MMF) until 1995. He then found the practice of Hanekom-Grobler Attorneys where he practiced until 2001. Thereafter he practiced under the name and style of Hanekom Attorneys as well as at Gerard Stoop Attorneys. He gained extensive experience in personal injury and motor
vehicle accident (especially RAF) litigation, as well as matrimonial and criminal litigation, appearing in both the Magistrates’ and High Courts. In 2007 he also started to practice first at the UJ Law Clinic and in 2019 the UP Law Clinic.

Still practicing as an attorney he also joined the University of Pretoria in 2002 as an academic associate in the Department of Procedural Law. In 2004 he was appointed as lecturer in Criminal Procedure at the University of Pretoria and continued until April 2007. He has been an instructor at
the certificate short course in Sports Law at the University of Pretoria from 2006 to 2008. He has continuously been appointed as an instructor and lecturer in Motor Vehicle Accidents, later reconfigured as Personal Injury Claims, for the Law Society of South Africa - LEAD at various Schools for Legal Practice in Johannesburg, Pretoria, and Durban from 1999 to the current date. He also serves as instructor at several private firms of attorneys. From time to time, he presents lectures and courses in Practical Contracts, Matrimonial Law, the Law of Costs, Numeracy and Legal Ethics, both to law students and candidate attorneys.

From May 2007 to May 2019, he was employed as the Director of the University of Johannesburg Law Clinic and also lectured the final year LLB module Applied Legal Studies. He was the academic coordinator for the National Diploma in Law: (Paralegal Studies) from 2009 to 2011 and lectured Civil Law 2 comprising of delicts, debt collections and mediation until 2018.He has been involved in the adjudication of disciplinary matters for the Faculty of Law at the University of Pretoria, the University of Johannesburg, and the Law Society of South Africa.

Eddie was a Member of the Executive Committee of the South African University Law Clinics Association (SAULCA), 2013 – 2015. He was then the Vice-President of the South African University Law Clinics Association (SAULCA), for two successive terms July 2015 to July 2019. He was also the President of the South African University Law Clinics Association (SAULCA), for twosuccessive terms from July 2019 to February 2024. He was Co-opted as an Additional Member of the Executive Committee of the South African University Law Clinics Association (SAULCA), 2025 – current date and he is a Trustee of the AULAI Trust, 2015 to current date.

Demi Johannisen is the Family Law Attorney at Stellenbosch University Law Clinic. She obtained her LLB degree from the University of the Western Cape in 2016 and completed her articles in 2019 at the University of the Western Cape Law Clinic.

She was admitted as an Attorney of the High Court in September 2019. Demi assists clients with family law related matters, such as divorce proceedings, maintenance applications, children’s court and wills. Demi assists final year law students and supervises and mentors the candidate legal practitioners within her department.