Henry Shields

2025 Executive Committee of Convocation Nominee

LEGAL CAREER Founder and Executive Director: Shields Attorneys 
Joined Mallinicks Attorneys 1985. 


Several reported landmark decisions in the field of personal and fatal injury  MUSIC CAREER Founder of Grahamstown Jazz Festival 1989 
Composer of music recorded by the AFRICAN JAZZ PIONEERS Created jazzAlive - a pioneering program in the field of music therapy 
Founder of the Standard Bank jazz festival within the KKNK in Oudtshoorn and the Hermanus Whale Festival 
Creator of the Boereqanga fusion of boeremusiek and mbaqanga  OTHER   Tour and safari guide - Southern Africa  EDUCATION  B. Proc UNISA
BA (Comparative African Government and Law, Political philosophy,
English, Economics, Economic History) UCT 1974
Matric Sea Point Boys High 1968