Malusi Mbuli is an Advocate of the High Court, focusing on labour law and dispute resolution. He has written several statutory and private arbitration awards, some of which were published. He has conducted many complex conciliations, mediations, disciplinary hearings and some misconduct investigations in various sectors.

Before taking up his current position, Malusi served as a panellist for a statutory and private dispute resolution institution in East London in the Eastern Cape and did labour-law related work for private companies. From 2001 to 2005 e worked as a full-time CCMA Commissioner in Durban, mainly doing statutory conciliations and arbitrations. In 2006 he returned to the Eastern Cape and worked as a part-time CCMA Commissioner.

He started his career as legal officer at the South African Municipal Workers Union in the Eastern Cape. Malusi was born in Butterworth in the Eastern Cape in 1972 and is now residing in East London. He passed matric at St. Johns College in Umtata and enrolled for a BJuris degree at the University of Transkei (Unitra) now known as Walter Sisulu University. He subsequently also obtained an LLB degree (1995). In 1996 he started working as candidate attorney at Rhodes University and completed practical legal training at the (then) University of Natal the following year.