Claudia Noble
Ms Claudia Noble graduated with a BCom LLB degree from the University of the Witwatersrand where she was also active in the affairs of the Black Students´ Society. Ms Noble served her articles of clerkship at the Johannesburg firm of Werksmans under the tutelage of some of the country´s most pre-eminent conveyancers. On admission as an attorney and conveyancer she became one of the first black conveyancers in South Africa. Ms Noble is highly experienced in the field of low cost housing development having attended to more than 25 townships establishments with registrations of servitudes and over 20 000 registrations of transfers.
Ms Noble served as a member of the Mpumalanga Housing Board in 1995, and as executive member of the Daveyton Etwatwa Development Corporation where she was involved in the promotion of black entrepreneurship in the housing sector until 2000. In 2001 she was appointed as Lead Consultant to the City of Johannesburg to spearhead the sectionalisation of their row houses, duplex flats and flats complexes. In 2002 she was appointed by the Department of Housing and Land Affairs as a member of their Regional Professional Teams in both the City of Johannesburg and City of Tshwane. Furthermore, she served as a director of the Simunye Woman´s Consortium, its mission being the promotion of women. In addition, she encourages the employment of disabled women in collaboration with ACCESS College. In 2003, Ms Noble received the Regional Business Women´s Achiever Award, which recognised the substantial contribution she has made to the regional economy.
