Zsa-Zsa Boggenpoel is a Professor in the Department of Private Law. She completed her LLD in 2010, with a dissertation entitled “Building encroachments and compulsory transfer of ownership”. Professor Boggenpoel has received numerous awards from Stellenbosch University and from universities abroad, including the Henry Arthur Holland Scholarship in Law from the University of Cambridge, London (2009); a Visiting Scholarship from the Molengraaff Institute for Private Law at Utrecht University, Netherlands (2009); the Mellon Academic Development Award from the Division for Research Development at Stellenbosch University (2014); and the Vice-Rector Award for one of the researchers who made the biggest contributions at Stellenbosch University in accredited publications and supervision of postgraduate students. 

She has published numerous journal articles and one book since commencing her academic career in 2011; she has presented nationally and internationally at conferences associated with her field of interest. She is also actively involved in postgraduate supervision of postdoctoral fellows, doctoral dissertations, and masters’ theses as she is passionate about the next generation of scholars tasked with the responsibility of developing the law The Faculty offers undergraduate programmes to around 1200 students and postgraduate programmes to around 220 students. in line with the Constitution. In 2016, Professor Boggenpoel was awarded an NRF rating in the category C1.

 Professor Boggenpoel was promoted to full professor in the Department of Private Law at Stellenbosch University in 2017. She was awarded the South African Research Chair in Property Law (Tier 1) under the NRF: South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) from March 2018 to December 2022