Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Dispute Resolution

Khaya Mantengu is a Director in our Dispute Resolution practice, specializing in construction and engineering matters. Khaya has extensive experience in providing advice and assisting clients in mediation, adjudication, arbitration and High Court matters. This experience includes several disputes involving the construction of power stations, dams, large-scale accommodation facilities, schools, roads, mines, water and sanitation projects and smelters throughout Africa.

Khaya's experience also includes drafting and reviewing construction contracts based on standard form agreements, such as the Federation Internationale Des Ingenieurs-Conseils (FIDIC) and the Joint Building Contracts Committee (JBCC), and the New Engineering Contract (NEC), EPCM, O&M and bespoke contracts in the built environment.

Khaya started his career as a Candidate Attorney in 2011 with Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyer. In 2013 he was appointed as an Associate. Later that year, Khaya joined ENSafrica and in 2015 was appointed as a Senior Associate. In 2017 Khaya joined NewGX Capital group of companies as head of legal. In 2018 he opened Mantengu Attorneys. In 2020 he joined Gwina Attorneys as a Director. He joined Fluxmans Attorneys as a Director 2021. Khaya re-joined CDH in 2024.

Khaya serves as an adjudicator on the Construction Adjudication Association of South Africa.

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LLB: University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Admitted as an attorney: 2013