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2 October, 2002

Selby Baqwa is group executive head of corporate governance at Nedcor.

Previously, he was the Public Protector, a post formerly known as the Ombudsman. Before assuming that post, he served on the Browde Commission probing irregularities in the public services of the former homelands. Baqwa was a part-time professor of mercantile law and an instructor at the School for Legal Practice at the University of Natal. He became an attorney in 1976, practised until 1988 and is a member of the Durban bar. He was head of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers. He is the chancellor of North West Technikon.