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Submit your company news to legalnews@bizcommunity.com. Exclusive contributions may be sent to contributor-legal@bizcommunity.com. Top stories
Legal
Writing in his blog, law expert Pierre de Vos writes that only time will tell whether President Jacob Zuma's decision to appoint a commission of inquiry to investigate allegations of wrongdoing in the Strategic Defence Procurement Packages (aka the "arms deal") will become a political disaster or a masterstroke. Read more >>
Commercial Law
Foreign traders in Buffalo Flats and the Vergenoeg communities have been accused of buying old containers, converting them into spaza shops and selling goods to residents in these communities while they are not licenced to trade. Read more >>
 [Geraldine Macpherson] One of the better known estate planning methods of shifting wealth from one generation to the next, free of estate duty, is the use of the section 4A abatement, as provided for in the Estate Duty Act. Essentially, the planner leaves the amount of R3.5 million to someone other than his spouse - for example, to his children directly, to an inter vivos trust or, possibly, to a testamentary trust. Read more >>
Criminal Law
A taxi driver has sued the Roads Agency Limpopo for R990 000 after his vehicle crashed off a collapsed bridge over the Lutanandwa River on the Thohoyandou road heading towards Louis Trichardt. Read more >>
Labour Law
[Paul Vecchiatto] President Jacob Zuma says government was contemplating increasing fines for companies not advancing the employment and promotion of historically disadvantaged individuals. Read more >>
 The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU), an Athens based organisation with 82-million members, said in a statement that it denounces the Johannesburg Labour Court's decision to turn down an urgent application by the National Union of Mineworkers to stop Eskom from introducing a unilateral 7% pay rise. Read more >>
Agriculture, Horticulture & Forestry
PRETORIA: The South African government has approved the publication of a draft of the Plant Breeders' Rights Amendment Bill and is now available for public comment. Read more >>
Production
 The Film and Publication Board (FPB) and the department of home affairs recently screened the film 'Trust', which illustrates the potential dangers of children accessing the internet and interacting with others through social media. Read more >>
Administration
 Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan has urged municipalities to forget the frills like Mercedes Benzes and to stick to the basics like service delivery. He was briefing journalists in Cape Town on the newly released Local Government Budgets and Spending Review for 2011. Read more >>
Transport
The controversial R10-billion Winelands toll road in the Western Cape will go ahead despite widespread objections to its development. The City of Cape Town - which has already declared an inter-governmental dispute with the Transport Ministry - says that litigation may be the only way to prevent the toll road. Read more >>
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