Lizelle is an Advocate, with several degrees, including an LLB, an LLM in Corporate Law, and an Honours Certificate in Advanced Tax Practice and an Advanced Certificate in Corporate Law. She was an academic associate and lecturer at the University of Pretoria and thereafter an admitted and practicing Advocate with the Pretoria Society of Advocates prior to her appointment as a Tax Specialist at the South African Revenue Service. Lizelle re-joined the Pretoria Society of Advocates and practices in all areas of general commercial law with a particular interest in tax law, custom and excise law, company law, competition law and corporate governance. Lizelle was appointed by the deputy judge president of the Gauteng North High Court as an acting Judge in 2017 and by the Minister of Trade and Industry in 2014 as a Tribunal member of the Companies Tribunal, a newly established body under the Companies Act, to adjudicate over company law disputes and facilitate mediations. She served on various boards both in the public and private sectors and has been involved in the BMF Investments Company, the SEDA Limpopo Jewellery Incubator and the Tshwane Economic Development Agency as a member of the Board of Directors and member of the Board’s various sub-committees.

Lizelle’s achievements are manifold – ranging from MP of the African Youth Parliament (NEPAD) to keynote speaker at the Africa Student Symposium on negotiation and conflict resolution in conjunction with the Arcadia University (USA) and University of Cape Town. She is also the recipient of numerous recognition of achievement, service and leadership awards. Lizelle is deeply committed to community work, and prescribes to ‘making a difference’ and has therefore been apart of establishing a number of Not-for-Profit organizations focusing on young and women in particular.