Mabaeng Lenyai is the Vice President of Pan African Lawyers Union (PALU), premier continental forum of and for lawyers and lawyers’ associations in Africa.  Ms Lenyai is an attorney and director at Mabaeng Lenyai Inc in Pretoria. She holds the BProc and LLB degrees from the University of Limpopo and the University of KwaZulu-Natal respectively.

Ms. Lenyai was appointed as an acting judge at the Gauteng Division of the High Court (Superior), Pretoria. She was admitted as an attorney in 1998 and is a notary and conveyancer. She has been a council member of the LSSA since 2015 and the Chairperson of the Black Lawyers Association’s (BLA) Northwest branch for four years. Since 2018 she has been a member of the National Executive Council of the BLA, where she is the Secretary General.  Ms. Lenyai as part of her social commitment, is a council member of the Community Education Training Centre in Mmakau and a legal adviser on Motsweding FM.