One of the country's most experienced law experts Pat Moodley is set to retire after serving the nation for over rthree decades.
Law titan Pat Moodley to retire after 30 years of trailblazing and paving the way for women in the fieldThe once sleepy town of Isipingo in the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal is the birthplace of a giant in South African law,Currently, the provincial head of the KZN Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, Moodley, who has moved mountains since her career, is set to retire on November 29.
As a child, Moodley excelled in school. “I was a girl guide and the leadership roles I had in the organisation cultivated in me very early in my life the traits needed to succeed. We had very dedicated and committed teachers and school was an environment that nurtured me.”Zubie Seedat, a sari-clad Indian woman who was her father's lawyer."I was about 13 or 14 years at the time and met this elegant woman. I was in awe, and she became one of my childhood mentors.
Obtaining a university degree was a non-negotiable in the family. An overachiever, she went above the bare minimum of her strict family’s requirements. I was committed to the politics but knew that I could not sacrifice a year as with that I would have lost my bursary." "In January 2000, I was appointed as an Acting Magistrate in the Durban Court in the Family Court. The Domestic Violence Act was newly enacted, and I was responsible for DV, Maintenance and Children’s Court. I spent four years in this space and remain forever grateful for that experience."
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