The Faculty of Law of the University of Pretoria extends a warm welcome to Professor Monray Marsellus Botha who was appointed in January 2016 as Head of the Department of Mercantile Law.

Professor Botha is Head of  and associate professor in the Department of Mercantile Law and holds the degrees BLC, BCom (Hons), LLB, LLM (Pret), MCom (UJ), LLD (NWU), AIPSA Diploma (AIPSA/Pret), Diploma in Alternative Dispute Resolution (AFSA/Pret) and a Diploma in Corporate Law (UJ). His LLD thesis is titled “Employee participation and voice in companies: A legal perspective”.

Professor Botha joined the Department of Mercantile at University of Pretoria as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in 1999 to 2006, and again in 2009.  He was employed as a Senior Lecturer at the University of Johannesburg for the periods 2007 to 2008 and 2011 to 2013 and was a Senior Lecturer at the North West University from 2013 to 2015.

His main areas of interest are labour law, corporate law, corporate governance and corporate social responsibility.