Advocate Osborne S’tembiso Dzingwa [affectionately known as “Ozzie Osborne”] started his legal career as a court interpreter.  He was a court interpreter in the district courts at Verulam Magistrate’s Court, north-west of Durban. 

The service he rendered during court proceedings engendered in his heart a love for the law jurisprudence.  Thus, he read for his first law degree at the University of South Africa.  While discharging his duties as an interpreter, he exhibited such an art of interpreting in the district courts that he soon rose to the rank of Senior Interpreter and was transferred to the High Court at its Local Division in Durban and at its seat in Pietermaritzburg. He completed his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from the University of South Africa.  Some State Advocates at the High Court sought to have him start prosecuting at the High Court, but, regrettably, the system required him to start at the district courts, whereupon he left the service of the state and was admitted as an advocate of the High Court and practised as such, appearing in circuit courts of the High Court in Scottburgh and Mtunzini. At about the same time he graduated with a Master of Laws degree (LLM) from his alma mater, the University of South Africa.  

Coupled with his love for law, Advocate Dzingwa also loves the beauty of language. And so it was that in 2008 he joined the Office of the Chief State Law Adviser in Cape Town and contributed immensely in making legislation available in indigenous languages.  He also contributed generously to a lexicography project based at the University of Fort Hare, doing so as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Lexicography Unit.  Advocate Dzingwa graduated yet further with a Doctor of Laws degree (LLD) from his alma mater, the University of South Africa. His thesis was The Desirability of Consistency in Constitutional Interpretation — a masterpiece of 554 pages!

Dr Dzingwa believes in rendering legal services in a professional, dignified, yet sympathetic manner, both to the high-ranking personage in the South African community and to the man of straw. The legal profession is a clean, honourable profession.  Accordingly, you will be represented in courts, and indeed before any tribunal, in the best possible fashion, in accordance with the high ethical standards of this profession.  You may entrust this practice with your affairs, taking comfort in the knowledge that this practice has your best interests — at least at heart — if not at law!