Prof Sizwe Snail ka Mtuze

Prof Sizwe Snail ka Mtuze

Adjunct Professor at the Nelson Mandela University, Mercantile Law Department

Sizwe Lindelo Snail ka Mtuze holds an LLB from the University of Pretoria. He previously worked at Couzyn Hertzog & Horak in Pretoria as an Attorney between 2007-2010. He has been a practising attorney with the law firm Snail Attorneys at Law since 2010. He holds an LLM from the University of South Africa and is currently an LLD Candidate at the University of Fort Hare. Prof Snail ka Mtuze is an Adjunct Professor at the Nelson Mandela University, Mercantile Law Department where he supervises postgraduate MPhil and LLM students and was previously a Research Fellow (2014 – 2022) as well as a Lecturer in the field of Cyberlaw (2018- 2022) at the University of Fort Hare.

He has served as an Advisory Member of the Cyber BRICS, FGV Rio de Janeiro, Brazil since 2019 and is also a Visiting Professor at CTS-FGV Rio de Janeiro, Brazil since ( since 2022). Sizwe was a member of the South African Information Regulator from 2016 until 2021 and a member on the ICT Review Panel of the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS), serving as the chair of the E-Commerce Committee (Digital Society, as renamed). Between 2014 and 2016, Prof Snail served on the National Cyber Security Advisory Council of the DTPS and was the Deputy Chair and Chair for the Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) E-Law Committee between 2013 and 2021.

He has been the domain name mediator for the South African Domain Name Authority (ZADNA) since 2017 and has previously served as a member of the Films and Publication Appeal Board (FPB) (between 2016 and 2021). Sizwe was the co-editor and author of CyberlawSA III: The Law of the Internet in South Africa (2012) and CyberlawSA IV: The Law of the Internet in South Africa published in 2022. He is currently busy updating Cyberlaw @ SA V which will be published later in 2025. Prof Snail has also recently acted as Amicus Curiae in a case dealing with the POPI Act.