Tefo Raditapole

Tefo Raditapole is a coach and assessor on the faculty of trainers for the Conflict Dynamics Commercial Mediator Skills training course. He is also a panellist on the Conflict Dynamics panels of mediators and facilitators. Tefo is accredited as a mediator by the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR).

Tefo is an accomplished legal policy advisor and dispute resolution specialist. He has facilitated and co-facilitated major negotiations in the finance, transport, higher education, health and local government spheres, including institutional mergers, the Financial Sector Empowerment Charter and negotiations between the City of Johannesburg and the taxi industry on the Bus Rapid Transport system. He has mediated industrial and community disputes locally and regionally. He has also conducted various industrial and electoral conflict management workshops throughout the Southern African Development Community region as well as Ghana and Ireland.

Tefo served as special advisor to the premiers of Gauteng Province over ten years and was a commissioner on the Commission for Employment Equity. He has been involved in the management and oversight of the Land Rights Management Facility, managed by CTH for the Department of Rural Development and Land Reform. Other institutions he has consulted to the International Labour Organization, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa, the National Democracy Institute, and the Electoral Institute of Southern Africa. Tefo is a co-author of the Black Economic Empowerment: Commentary, Legislation and Charters (Juta). He received a BA (Law) from the National University of Lesotho in 1985 and a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of the Witwatersrand in 1988.

Tefo is available to train in English, Sotho, Tswana, and Sepedi.