Anton Alberts (lawyer)
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Anton Alberts is a South Africa
n lawyer with Alberts Bekker Vorster Pillay & Associates (ABVP) of Pretoria
, which provides professional legal and financial advisory services to its mainly corporate clients. Alberts is an ABVP director who specialises in media, entertainment and international law.
graduating with a bachelor’s degree, and a master’s degree in international law (cum laude). He has published a number of legal works, including the entertainment law edition of LexisNexis
’ "forms and precedents", a chapter in the Internet law publication Cyberlaw, and a chapter in South Africa’s first telecommunications law text book "Telecommunications Law in South Africa".
His teaching career started as a lecturer in criminal, corporate and international law at Technikon
SA (now part of the University of South Africa
) and continued at Rand Afrikaans University
(now the University of Johannesburg).
(Africa’s largest pay-TV operator), and later became legal manager at Internet Solutions (part of Dimension Data
PLC). Appointments with Shaw Communications
LLP (Canada’s second-largest television and Internet company) and with Mobile Data Solutions Incorporated (a Vancouver-based ICT firm) followed, before he became an ABVP director.
(TRC) into the 1982 bombing of the ANC
's offices in London (for which apartheid-era superspy, Craig Williamson
, and seven former agents of the Civil Cooperation Bureau
(CCB) applied and were granted amnesty). Speaking after the amnesty hearing, Alberts told the "woza" news agency: "If you look at the Lockerbie disaster - this is very similar. I think Britain would like to see these guys are prosecuted in England even though they get amnesty here."
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
n lawyer with Alberts Bekker Vorster Pillay & Associates (ABVP) of Pretoria
Pretoria
Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.Pretoria is...
, which provides professional legal and financial advisory services to its mainly corporate clients. Alberts is an ABVP director who specialises in media, entertainment and international law.
Student and teacher
Anton Alberts studied law at the University of JohannesburgUniversity of Johannesburg
The University of Johannesburg came into existence on 1 January 2005 as the result of a merger between the Technikon Witwatersrand and the Rand Afrikaans University . Prior to the merger, the Daveyton and Soweto campuses of the former Vista University had been incorporated into RAU...
graduating with a bachelor’s degree, and a master’s degree in international law (cum laude). He has published a number of legal works, including the entertainment law edition of LexisNexis
LexisNexis
LexisNexis Group is a company providing computer-assisted legal research services. In 2006 it had the world's largest electronic database for legal and public-records related information...
’ "forms and precedents", a chapter in the Internet law publication Cyberlaw, and a chapter in South Africa’s first telecommunications law text book "Telecommunications Law in South Africa".
His teaching career started as a lecturer in criminal, corporate and international law at Technikon
Technikon
Technikon is a term used in South Africa to refer to a University of Technology. A synonym is "Technical University".Technikons focus mainly on providing high quality education and giving a hands-on approach to education and training...
SA (now part of the University of South Africa
University of South Africa
The University of South Africa is a distance education university, with headquarters in Pretoria, South Africa. With approximately 300 000 enrolled students, it qualifies as one of the world's mega universities.-History:...
) and continued at Rand Afrikaans University
Rand Afrikaans University
The Rand Afrikaans University ' was a prominent South African institution of higher education and research that served the greater Johannesburg area and surrounds in from 1967 to 2004...
(now the University of Johannesburg).
Business career
Alberts was appointed head of legal affairs for M-NetM-Net
M-Net is a subscription-funded television channel in South Africa, established in 1986 by Naspers....
(Africa’s largest pay-TV operator), and later became legal manager at Internet Solutions (part of Dimension Data
Dimension Data
Dimension Data Holdings is a South African company specializing in information technology services, with operations in Europe, Asia, Australia, the Americas and the Middle East & Africa.In 2010, the company was fully acquired by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone....
PLC). Appointments with Shaw Communications
Shaw Communications
Shaw Communications is Canada's largest telecommunications company that provides telephone, Canada's fastest Internet and television services as well as broadcasting and soon Wifi. Shaw is headquartered in Calgary, Alberta...
LLP (Canada’s second-largest television and Internet company) and with Mobile Data Solutions Incorporated (a Vancouver-based ICT firm) followed, before he became an ABVP director.
Claim to fame
In September 1999, Anton Alberts attended a hearing of the South African Truth and Reconciliation CommissionTruth and Reconciliation Commission
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was a court-like restorative justice body assembled in South Africa after the abolition of apartheid. Witnesses who were identified as victims of gross human rights violations were invited to give statements about their experiences, and some were selected...
(TRC) into the 1982 bombing of the ANC
African National Congress
The African National Congress is South Africa's governing Africanist political party, supported by its tripartite alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the South African Communist Party , since the establishment of non-racial democracy in April 1994. It defines itself as a...
's offices in London (for which apartheid-era superspy, Craig Williamson
Craig Williamson
Craig Michael Williamson , a former South African police major, was exposed as a spy in 1980, and was involved in a series of state-sponsored overseas bombings, burglaries, kidnappings, assassinations and propaganda during the apartheid era.-Infiltration:In the late 1970s, Craig Williamson had...
, and seven former agents of the Civil Cooperation Bureau
Civil Cooperation Bureau
The South African Civil Cooperation Bureau was a government-sponsored hit squad during the apartheid era that operated under the authority of Defence Minister General Magnus Malan...
(CCB) applied and were granted amnesty). Speaking after the amnesty hearing, Alberts told the "woza" news agency: "If you look at the Lockerbie disaster - this is very similar. I think Britain would like to see these guys are prosecuted in England even though they get amnesty here."