19 July 2024 11:50 AM

Oyama Mzayidume, a Prince Alfred House Sub-Warden, is racking up achievements this year.

On Thursday, 22 February 2024, the Law Faculty hosted the Faculty Opening at Eden Grove and handed out awards for the previous academic year. Oyama received four prizes and was placed on the Dean’s List. The prizes:

1. Law Faculty Prize for Best Penultimate Year LLB student – awarded to the student with the best marks in the 2023 Penultimate Year LLB class.
2. Bowman’s Prize for Corporate Law – awarded to the top student in Company Law A, Company Law B and the Law of Partnerships and Trust.
3. Fred Cooper Prize for Company Law – awarded to the top student in Company Law A and Company Law B.
4. LexisNexis Book Prize – awarded to the best speaker in the Penultimate Year LLB Moot final.

On Tuesday 26 March 2024, the Law Faculty held the Final Year LLB Moot Final at the Moot Room at the Law Faculty. Oyama was one of four students selected to participate in the Moot Final based on having obtained the highest marks in the class in the preliminary round of the moots. The Moot topic was about a dispute over the succession to a traditional leadership position. Oyama's team won the Moot, and Oyama was chosen as the Best Speaker by the judges.

The Abe Bailey Travel Bursary is a prestigious award which covers an all-expenses tour of the United Kingdom. The Abe Bailey Bursary has been awarded to over 800 South African students since its inception in 1951. Abe Bailey Bursars are selected for their exceptional leadership qualities and community engagement. The Tour takes place over three weeks. It starts in Cape Town, and thereafter, the Bursars travel to England and Scotland, visiting universities such as Oxford, Cambridge and St Andrews, experiencing the cultural life of the UK and meeting influential people from South Africa and the UK. The Tour aims to promote diversity, South African unity, leadership that is open to debate and different perspectives, and to foster commitment to a common future.

Students from nearly all 26 of the residential universities in South Africa apply, and only 16 students (one from each university) are selected each year for the Tour. After the Tour, Bursars join the Abe Bailey Fellowship, a community of previous Bursars who are making an impact in their communities. This year Oyama is deeply grateful to have been selected to represent Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 on the Abe Bailey Tour. Oyama is looking forward to meeting the group of incredible young people from across the country with whom she will spend three life-changing weeks. She is excited to visit Oxford 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, and she hopes to come back from the Tour with experiences that will develop her as a person and as a future legal practitioner.

From Monday, 22 July, to Saturday, 27 July, Oyama will be participating in the 33^rd Christof Heyns African Human Rights Moot Competition. The competition will be held in Kigali, Rwanda and will be hosted by the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Rwanda. Teams from law faculties across the African continent will be participating. The Christof Heyns Moot is one of the top moot court competitions in Africa, and judges of previous editions include sitting judges of the African Court on Human and Peoples Rights, the Chief Justice of Ghana and Advocate Thuli Madonsela, the former Public Protector of South Africa.

Source:  Drostdy News

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