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![Photo: The Book List](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423732-300x156.jpg?2) Questions are being asked about how the confidentiality provisions of the Tax Administration Act are aligned with legislation providing for whistle-blowers and freedom of expression...read | ![Maintenance Act amendments clamp down on defaulters](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/424301-300x156.jpg?2) The Maintenance Amendment Act, aimed at cracking down on child maintenance defaulters, came into effect today (5 January)...read |
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![#BizTrends2018: Five trends in employment law we can expect in 2018](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/424433.jpg) | Johan Botes As we launch into 2018, here are a handful of trends we'll be seeing in the workplace this coming year... read | |
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![Photo: CAJ News Africa](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/424183-120x120.jpg?2) | Linda Ensor The Competition Commission has recommended to the Competition Tribunal that the acquisition by Old Mutual Ltd of Old Mutual plc be approved with conditions... read |
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![All images ©](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423762-120x120.jpg?2) | Jessica Bezuidenhout & Rebecca Davis In 2017, the horrifying extent of State Capture finally became clearer to the South African public. And we would still be languishing in the dark were it not for the whistle-blowers: the handful of courageous South African men and women who did not remain silent in the face of wrongdoing, but stood up and spoke out... read |
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![Freedom Property Fund takes legal action to recover a bonus of R2.5m](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423749-120x120.jpg?2) | Charlotte Mathews Freedom Property Fund is taking legal action to recover an annual performance bonus of R2.5m paid to its previous CEO during its 2015 financial year... read |
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![German regulator cannot probe Deloitte](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423369.jpg) | Linda Ensor The German regulatory authority for auditors has no direct legal competence to investigate Deloitte's handling of the financial statements of the international retail holding company Steinhoff International Holdings... read |
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![SARS cracks down on counterfeit clothing](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423674-120x120.jpg?2) | More than R97-million worth of fake clothing was seized by the South African Revenue Service (SARS) in its crackdown on illegal clothing and textile imports this year... read |
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![Hawks arrest two of their own for stealing](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423476.jpg) | Three law enforcement officers have been arrested by the Hawks' Serious Anti-Corruption Unit for allegedly stealing R1 million... read |
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![Alleged human trafficker remanded in custody](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/424721.jpg) | Suspected human trafficker Chibuike Innocent Nwosu (39) has been remanded in custody by the Cape Town Magistrate's Court... read |
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![Labour Court upholds Shevel son's dismissal from Headache Clinic](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423731-120x120.jpg?2) | Naledi Shange The Labour Court has upheld a ruling that a father was correct in firing his son from his medical facility in Johannesburg... read |
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![Withdrawing an offer of employment constitutes dismissal](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423916-120x120.jpg?2) | Jacques van Wyk Can an offer to employment which is later withdrawn amount to a dismissal? read |
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![All the King's Horses and all the King's Men could not put the contract together again...](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/424104-120x120.jpg?2) | Johan Botes "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone," it means just what I chose it to mean - neither more, neither less." ... read |
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![Google engineer fired for sexist memo sues ex-employer](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/424778.jpg) | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: A Google engineer who was fired after writing a memo defending the gender gap in Silicon Valley tech jobs as a matter of biology has sued his former employer for discrimination... read |
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![Durban metro police could face lawsuits over drunk driving bungle](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/423988-120x120.jpg?1) | Durban's metro police could face lawsuits from motorists prosecuted for drunk driving if their blood was drawn by an unregistered part-time nurse... read |
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![Education lobby group asks court to prevent WSU law accreditation from being revoked](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/424770.jpg) | Linda Ensor A lobby group, the Higher Education Transformation Network (HETN), has brought an urgent high court application in Gauteng, to interdict the Council for Higher Education from proceeding with its decision to revoke the accreditation of the Walter Sisulu University's (WSU's) law degree... read |
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![Ewald Nowotny, European Central Bank governing council member](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/424198-120x120.jpg?2) | BERLIN, Germany: A top European Central Bank officialcalled for governments to regulate and tax bitcoin, labelling the cryptocurrency an object of speculation and a tool for money laundering... read |
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![EU seeks 'urgent' response to bitcoin bonanza](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423733-120x120.jpg?2) | BRUSSELS, Belgium: The EU's top official for the euro single currency pressed European regulators to urgently update financial rules in order to face bitcoin's dizzying volatility... read |
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![Regulator notes energy licensing and exemption notice](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423487.jpg) | The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) has noted the gazetting of the Licensing Exemption and Registration Notice... read |
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![Martin van Staden](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423623-120x120.jpg?2) | Martin van Staden The Constitution's guarantee of equality in section 9 is not merely concerned with 'formal' equality (equality at law), but endorses a notion of 'substantive' equality... read |
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![Image credit: brotiN biswaS via](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423924-120x120.jpg?2) | Kazakhstan on Thursday pushed through a raft of controversial amendments to a media law despite concern that the new legislation will further limit freedom of speech in the tightly-controlled nation... read |
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![Mind the gap: Demarcation Regulations and universal healthcare](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/424009-120x120.jpg?2) | A healthy nation is a cornerstone of socioeconomic growth, and besides ensuring basic services such as clean water and sanitation, quality healthcare is also a right... read |
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![One month's tax-free relocation allowance does a vanishing act](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423824-120x120.jpg?2) | Tanya Tosen One of the perks the South African Revenue Services (Sars) has always allowed is one-month's salary as a tax-free allowance for employees who were being relocated. read |
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![Image credit: ANA via](https://biz-file.com/c/1712/423461-120x120.jpg?2) | The South African Revenue Service (Sars) has followed through on threats to take legal action against the author of The President's Keepers, Jacques Pauw... read |
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![Top tech lobby joins legal battle to keep 'net neutrality'](https://biz-file.com/c/1801/424631.jpg) | The lobby group for some of the most powerful US tech firms said on Friday, 5 January 2018, it would join the legal challenge to the planned rollback of "net neutrality" rules requiring internet service providers to treat all online traffic equally... read |
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