Refilwe Sekobe was born and raised in Mafikeng in the North West. She is a 23-year-old Candidate Attorney and holds an LLB and an LLM in Commercial law, both from the University of Johannesburg.

Refilwe has served in leadership structures and through those structures, she has been actively involved in community service. She served in the executive committee of the Accounting club in high school, through which they raised funds to purchase non-perishables for orphanages. She joined BLASC-UJ and served in the sub-committee which was responsible for organising mentorship for schools around Johannesburg.

She is passionate about mentorship and continuing legal education. She joined SASLAW pro bono clinic as an intern where free labour law legal services were rendered to the public. She became an academic tutor for Business Law in her final year of her LLB till her Masters year.

She joined the Gauteng South African Chapter of the International Association of Women Judges (SAC- IAWJ) Mentorship Programme. Through the programme, she was mentored by Advocate Aasifa Salduker of Group One Advocates which provided exposure to the legal field as experienced by female legal practitioners. Tag us on Instagram @sister_in_law_ and @fifisekobe

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