Lebohang Dube joined Natural Justice in February 2025 as a Programme Officer for the Standing with Communities programme, in the Southern Africa Hub.
He is an Admitted Attorney who holds a Master of Laws degree, specialising in Environmental Law. Lebohang hails from Pietermaritzburg in the KwaZulu-Natal province. He is currently based in Johannesburg, Gauteng province.
His academic research and legal interests revolve around ”Ukubuyela emasisweni”, a call to return to Indigenous knowledge systems as a compass to navigate the fight for environmental justice.
Before stepping into environmental law practice full-time, he worked in child law and advocacy as a candidate attorney, where he learned the value of listening to children and about our respective roles in safeguarding their safety, dignity and rights. He has worked as a legal intern in supporting mining-affected communities, where he learned how issues of extractivism, land tenure, gendered inequalities expose the desperate social and economic realities of South Africa today.
Working as a Programme Officer at Natural Justice his work includes supporting indigenous and local communities in Southern Africa in confronting environmental injustices that threaten life, livelihoods and cultural heritage, with activities that involve learning, engaging and safeguarding the rights to land, heritage and environmental justice.