Advocate Anton Alberts is a member of parliament for the Freedom Front Plus. He serves on the party’s federal executive and is the Co-Deputy Leader of the party in the Gauteng Province. He is admitted as an advocate of the High Court of South Africa and before being elected to parliament specialized in the legal fields of media law, ICT and space law. He regularly acted as legal counsel to foreign ICT firms investing in South Africa, ICT firms active in Canada, and several film and television production houses operating in South Africa, Canada and the United States.
His career has taken him to interesting places, most notably starting off as a lecturer in Criminal, Corporate and International Law and Human Rights at Technikon SA (now part of the University of South Africa) and Rand Afrikaans University (now the University of Johannesburg), acting as head of legal affairs for M-Net (Africa’s largest pay-TV operator), and acting as legal manager at Internet Solutions (part of Dimension Data PLC), Shaw Communications LLP (Canada’s second largest television and Internet company) and later at Mobile Data Solutions Incorporated (a Vancouver-based ICT firm).
Anton received his legal education at the University of Johannesburg where he obtained the degrees, BA (Law), LL.B, and LL.M (International Law (Cum Laude)). He is a prolific researcher and has published several legal works, most notably the Entertainment Law edition of Butterworths’ Forms and Precedents, a chapter in the Internet law publication, Cyberlaw@SA, as well as a chapter in South Africa’s first telecommunications law text book, Telecommunications Law in South Africa. He also created a certificate course in Entertainment Law at the University of Johannesburg.
