Karthy Govender is a commissioner for the

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. Karthy Govender, along with Commissioner

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are two Commissioners of minority South African Tamil ancestry. Karthy Govender is also an associate professor in the Law Faculty at the

University of KwaZulu-Natal The University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) is a university with five campuses in the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. It was formed on 1 January 2004 after the merger between the University of Natal and the University of Durban-Westville. ...

, where he teaches Constitutional and Administrative Law. He is also a visiting professor at the

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. He has widely published in literature on Constitutional law.

References

External links

Karthy Govender Website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Govender, Karthy Year of birth missing (living people) Living people South African people of Tamil descent University of Durban-Westville alumni University of Michigan Law School faculty