South Africa: LLB to Phd – Thapelo Teele’s Inspirational Journey

Just a year after registering for his LLM at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Dr Thapelo Teele’s dissertation was upgraded to a PhD. In the two short years since, Dr Teele has successfully completed his doctoral thesis and been awarded a PhD in legal rhetoric studies – a rarely seen feat and one of the many reasons Thapelo is one of this year’s inspirational graduates.

He humorously describes himself as a “professional motivational letter writer”. Speaking with him, however, adjectives like…