On Tuesday, 13 October 2015, an LLD degree was bestowed on a very proud Ezette Gericke from the Department of Mercantile Law, Faculty of Law, University of Pretoria.  The title of Dr Gericke’s dissertation is “Successive fixed-term employment and the right to fair labour practices in South Africa”. 

The occasion was attended by her proud promotor, Prof Nicola Smit* and colleagues in the Department of Mercantile Law, University of Pretoria.  Prof Manfred Weiss, Emeritus Professor at JW Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, was the external promoter. 

Dr Gericke conducted some of her research at the EU Library, University of Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany during 2014.

* Former Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Johannesburg and currently Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of North-West, Potchefstroom