Admitted Attorney of the South African High Court Sizwe Lindelo Snail ka Mtuze holds an LLB from the University of Pretoria.
He is a practising attorney with the law firm Snail Attorneys at Law. He holds an LLM from the University of South Africa. Sizwe is registered with the University of Fort Hare for an LLD. Sizwe is an adjunct Professor at the Nelson Mandela University, Mercantile Law Department (2020- to date) and has been a Research Fellow since 2014 as well as Lecturer in the field of cyberlaw at the University of Fort Hare since (2018- date) Sizwe is also a Visiting Professor at CTS-FGV University, Rio de Janeiro since 2022.
Sizwe was a member of the South African Information Regulator (IR) from (2016-2021). Sizwe was a member on the ICT Review Panel of the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS), serving as a chair of the E-Commerce Committee (Digital Society, as renamed).

Sizwe served on the National Cyber Security Advisory Council of the DTPS. (2014 -2016) He was deputy chair and chair for the Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) E-Law Committee (2013-to 2021). He has been the domain name mediator for ZADNA (the Domain Name Authority) since 2017 and a member of the Films and Publication Appeal Board (FPB) (2016-2021). Sizwe also is an Advisory Member of the Cyber BRICS, FGV Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2019 to date ) Sizwe was the co-editor and author of CyberlawSA III: The Law of the Internet in South Africa (2012) but also CyberlawSA IV: The Law of the Internet in South Africa published in 2022.