A distinguished legal scholar, qualified fixed-wing pilot, and aviation law expert, Prof. Dube leads Flying Jurist with a wealth of experience in academia, international law, and aviation policy development. He has been instrumental in championing aviation as a catalytic niche in Africa and is the visionary behind the Aviation Indaba and the Society for International Aviation Law (SIAL).

Prof Dube holds a Doctorate in International Law (LLD) from the University of the Western Cape, whose core focus was universal jurisdiction under international criminal law (thesis title ‘Universal jurisdiction in respect of international crimes: Theory and practice in Africa’). He also holds a Master of Business Leadership (MBL) (thesis title ‘Ubuntu or Afrocentric leadership, team-based learning and organisational service orientation in the private sector’) from the UNISA Graduate School of Business Leadership.

In his stint in the academic sector, Prof Dube has worked as a Professor of International Law at the University of South Africa, where he ascended to the office of the Director of the School of Law (Acting) between 2023 and 2025. During his tenure at UNISA he was responsible for mainstreaming and championing aviation as a catalytic niche area across the university. He has also previously worked with the University of the Western Cape as a senior lecturer. Prof Dube cut his research and constitutional litigation teeth as a law researcher in the chambers of the late Justice TJ Madala of the Constitutional Court of South Africa in 2008 and has previously interned with the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative in Accra, Ghana.

Prof Dube combines his legal, academic and aviation expertise to contribute to the South African and African economy. He thus doubles up as a mentor, a speaker, an author and an academic. He has supervised to completion more than ten PhDs in areas such as aviation law, international law, comparative constitutionalism, mining, business and children’s rights, and the law of war. He served as the Chief Editor of the South African Yearbook of International Law (SAYIL) from 2018 to 2025.  Prof Dube has also received the following additional training, which have been central to his endeavour to amass skills and expertise in the confluence of aviation and international law:

• ‘National Development Course, Session 167’, National Defence University, Fu Hsing Kang College, Beitou District, Taipei Taiwan, 13 February to 5 March 2023.
• ‘Air and Missile Warfare: Navigating the Legal Dimension (Advanced AMPLE)’, Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Geneva Switzerland, 28 to 31 May 2017.
• ‘12th Advanced Seminar in IHL for University Lecturers and Researchers’, Geneva Academy, Switzerland, 25 – 29 September 2017.
• ‘United Nations International Law Fellowship Programme’, The Hague Academy, The Hague, the Netherlands, 6 July to 14 August 2009.

Prof Dube’s mentorship footprint is widely known across the region in both the legal, academic and aviation sectors. Of particular note is the work he has done under the umbrella of the non-profit organisation that he co-founded, the Afrikan Peer Growth Network (APGroN). His involvement at APGroN included facilitating annual conferences, webinars and seminars that focused mainly on junior and emerging scholars as well as providing individual mentorship for emerging scholars and pilots. Prof Dube is also a convenor of the Aviation Indaba (formerly known as the General Aviation Indaba), a transformative, deliberative industry platform aimed at centring aviation as a key economic driver. He has secured partnerships for industry shaping events with partners such as FlyFofa Aviation Training, Wonderboom National Airport, SANLAM and AERO South Africa. In that sense he has set himself out as a thought leader in the aviation industry across the SADC region.

Prof Dube was also instrumental in the formation of the Society for International Aviation Law (SIAL) which seeks to advance global aviation through the instrumentality of multi-, inter-, trans-disciplinary approaches, with law being the central pillar. He serves as the President of SIAL. He is a member of the African Network of Constitutional Lawyers, the Society for International Aviation Law and the Future of Law Network.