Pioneering KwaDukuza attorney Priscilla Pundit recently celebrated a remarkable 50 years of legal practice.

Born in Durban in 1948, she is recognised as the oldest, non-white female, practising attorney, conveyancer and notary public in the country. She is also a mother of five children and ten grandchildren. Her elder son Ashok Kumar Pundit and eldest daughter Nishana are also practising attorneys.

Although she is gradually passing the reins of the practice, started by her late husband Jayprakash Pundit, to Nishana and grandson Vinayak Panday, Pundit continues to work regularly – upholding justice with head, heart and hand in harmony.

Family and the law have always been intertwined for Pundit, who followed her father Mr R.P. Singh into the profession. She met her husband Jayprakash while he was an articled clerk to her father, travelling daily from KwaDukuza to Durban in 1967.

Eight years later, Pundit herself was admitted and later became a conveyancer and notary public in 1980. She has been a beacon in the local legal industry ever since and a matriarch to three generations of attorneys.

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