Charlene Tessa Pieterse
Charlene Pieterse is currently a Postgraduate Administrative Assistant in the Faculty of Law at the Nelson Mandela University. She is also a part-time final year LLB student. She started her career as a legal secretary in 1997 at a private law firm in Uitenhage (Kariega) in the Eastern Cape. In 1999 she moved to another private law firm in Despatch in the Eastern Cape until 2007. In May 2007 she accepted an opportunity at the Nelson Mandela University Law Clinic, where she worked as a legal secretary until 2018. She was then transferred to the Faculty of Law to assist Master’s and Doctoral students with administrative support. Charlene also obtained her accreditation as Debt Review Counsellor through The Association of University Legal Aid Institutions (AULAI) in 2008.