Wim Trengove SC (born 27 October 1949) is a South African advocate best known for his role in constitutional litigation.
[3] Initially interested in a career as a civil engineer,[2] he instead studied law after serving his conscripted service in the South African Defence Force.
[5] In human rights matters, Trengove argued, inter alia, for the abolition of the death penalty in S v Makwanyane,[6] against discrimination on the basis of HIV status in Hoffmann v South African Airways,[7] for the protection of sex workers' labour rights in Kylie v CCMA,[8] for the restitution of land and mineral rights to groups dispossessed during apartheid in Alexkor Ltd v Richtersveld Community,[9] and for the roll-out of anti-retroviral treatment for HIV patients in Minister of Health v Treatment Action Campaign.
[12] Other notable constitutional matters in which he appeared include Economic Freedom Fighters v Speaker, National Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality v Minister of Home Affairs, Kruger v President of the Republic of South Africa, My Vote Counts v Speaker of the National Assembly, and Corruption Watch v President.
[17] Trengove met his second wife, née Estelle Viljoen, in the 1980s, when she was a journalist covering one of his cases in Pretoria.