Centre for Environmental Rights – Advancing Environmental Rights in South Africa

Michelle Sithole

Attorney

Michelle Sithole joined CER as an Attorney in the Pollution and Climate Change Programme in July 2021. She holds an LLB from the University of the Witwatersrand. Following the completion of her LLB degree, she went on to complete her articles of clerkship at Webber Wentzel in Johannesburg. In 2018, she joined Corruption Watch’s Legal and Investigations team. In 2019, Michelle went on to serve as a law clerk to Justice Edwin Cameron and later Acting Justice Margaret Victor at the Constitutional Court of South Africa. Prior to joining CER, Michelle completed a stint as a legal researcher to the Chairperson of the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector Including Organs of State and then moved on to work on class actions as an Attorney at Richard Spoor Inc.

Michelle is passionate about defending human rights and is committed to using the law as a means of helping the most vulnerable members of society.

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