Prof. Tshepo Herbert Tong-Mongalo

Tshepo H. Tong-Mongalo (publishing/published as Tshepo H. Mongalo) has been since 2025 the Wilfred & Jules Kramer Law School Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Cape Town. He began his academic career at the University of Natal, Durban's Faculty of Law, where he taught from 1996 to 2003. Professor Tong-Mongalo has held visiting appointments at Nottingham, Cambridge, Indiana, Brown, Harvard and LSE. He was named a SAIRR Top Law Student, the UN Scholar of Excellence and Summa Cum Laude graduate at the University of Natal, Durban, in 1998, was awarded the Cambridge Commonwealth Scholarship and the Mandela Magdalene Scholarship to study Law at Cambridge University in 1999-2000 and received a Howard College (UND) Research Fellowship in 2004. His primary research interests are corporate law and governance, corporate financing and securities regulation. Professor Tong-Mongalo is the author/co-author/editor of the following books: Corporate Law and Corporate Governance: A Global Picture of Business Undertakings in South Africa (NAE, 2003); Forms of Business Enterprise: Theory, Structure and Operations (with Lumina and Kader) (NAE, 2004); Modern Company Law for a Competitive South African Economy (Juta, 2010); Corporate Law and Corporate Governance: An Overview of Business Undertakings in South Africa 2ed (Van Schaik, 2024) (with Scott); and Enforcement of Actions in Corporate Law by Non-Shareholder Constituencies: Lessons for the Common Law From South Africa (Lexington, 2025).

Prof. Tong-Mongalo is the Commissioner of the South African Law Reform Commission, the Deputy Chairperson of the Specialist Committee on Company Law in South Africa, the Chairperson of the Takeover Regulation Panel in South Africa and the Non-Executive Director of the Railway Safety Regulator in South Africa. He teaches Corporate Financing and Corporate Law and Governance in the Professional LLM stream at the University of Cape Town. Prof. Tong-Mongalo was the Associate Professor of Law the Wits University Professor of Corporate Law at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg from 2013 - 2025, during which time he was also the founding Head of School of Monash South Africa.