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Professor Cyril Mbatha Based on his research studies, Professor Cyril Mbatha of the Unisa Graduate School of Business Leadership weighs in on the land reform debate...read |
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Shan Radcliffe The advent of social media has provided brands with an undisputed marketing opportunity - a direct customer engagement and promotional platform, where brands can build their identity and loyalty to their heart's content. But all good things come with a price...read | 
Aphelele Tapile Recent times have seen the uprising of smartphones against not-so-smart people, and a trending weapon-of-choice in this regard is Call Recording Apps. However, this triggers the ethical question: is it even legal to record conversations without a person's knowledge...?read | 
Faith Ngwenya The current debt intervention Bill that is being proposed sets out a process that both credit providers and credit bureaus must follow when they are lending money, but certain parts of the proposal require further thinking and discussion...read |
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 | Marcus 'The Maltese Falcon' Brewster How does a nation get ahead in the global economy if its landmass and population size is small? Although I hadn't thought much about it previously, an article in the Times of Malta made me think of my newly adopted homeland rather differently. The answer is to position yourself as a player in the knowledge economy... read |
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 | The Gauteng provincial government has announced the introduction of a drive to shut down illegally operating foreign-owned businesses in townships... read |
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 | Ann Crotty Steinhoff chairwoman Heather Sonn said it appeared that the group's "accounting irregularities" related largely to its central European business... read |
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 | Karl Blom and Daniel Vale South Africa has recently suffered its largest data leak to date with, conservatively, an estimated 60 million South Africans' personal information becoming publicly available; the gravity of which (and the risks associated with the sensitive information that has been imparted from it) cannot be overestimated... read |
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 | Kenyan conservationists expressed outrage on Thursday, 1 March 2018, after construction of a railway line began inside Nairobi's famed national park, saying this defied a court order halting the project... read |
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 | The Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) has bulked up security at the country's points of entry to ensure the protection of big cats and other wildlife... read |
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 | FAWU will be marching in Pretoria and Cape Town to protest the loss of jobs through illicit trade practices and inappropriate government policies to prevent these job losses... read |
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 | Nick Hedley Convicted fraudster Rubben Mohlaloga has been given five days to say why he should not be removed from his post as chairman of the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa)... read |
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 | Ernest Mabuza The cost to reinstate the 700 workers who were fired by the Passenger Rail of South Africa (Prasa) after a protected strike five years ago will amount to over R1-billion... read |
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 | Suspended Group Executive for Information Technology, Sean Maritz, has resigned from Eskom with immediate effect... read |
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 | Theo Boshoff, Agbiz head of legal intelligence, puts the issue of land expropriation without compensation into perspective and shares four possible future scenarios for land reform in SA if expropriation without compensation finds its way... read |
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 | The South African Property Owners Association (SAPOA) has raised concerns following the recent motion by the National Assembly to amend the Constitution to allow for land expropriation without compensation... read |
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 | A National Assembly resolution allowing land expropriation without compensation will now be referred to the Constitutional Review Committee, which must report back to Parliament by 30 August 2018... read |
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 | Linda Ensor Expropriation without compensation would erode property rights and would mean that land could no longer serve as collateral for loans. There is also the danger of international disinvestment and the risk of losing benefits from initiatives such as AGOA... read |
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 | The National Assembly set in motion a process to amend the Constitution so as to allow for the expropriation of land without compensation... read |
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 | While some home owners believe the imposition of fines in community housing schemes (CHS), like sectional title complexes and estates, helps to ensure that all residents follow the rules... read |
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 | With Day Zero in Cape Town projected for 9 July, a number of questions have been raised about how the water crisis affects the rights of tenants and landlords... read |
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 | Issued By LexisNexis Lexis Library Time Select gives small to medium legal enterprises access to up-to-date and relevant legal content, increasing their billable hours exponentially... read |
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 | Linda Ensor Former SAA chairwoman Dudu Myeni could face a summons if she once again fails to appear before the parliamentary inquiry into state capture next week... read |
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 | One of the objectives of Sarb's recently announced fintech programme is deciding on the applicability of regulatory sandboxes... read |
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 | Cabinet has approved two bills which lay the foundation towards the National Development Plan (NDP) 2030 aspirations of an integrated passenger transport system that is accessible for all... read |
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 | One of the two pillars of the new architecture to regulate the financial sector, the Prudential Authority (PA), will take effect on 1 April 2018... read |
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 | Ann Crotty In what looks set to be an extremely drawn-out affair, the Competition Commission has referred 28 media companies to the Competition Tribunal for prosecution on charges of price fixing and the fixing of trading conditions, in contravention of the Competition Act... read |
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 | Linda Ensor It is legally and practically impossible for the value-added tax (VAT) increase announced in the budget to be reversed by Parliament before the implementation date of 1 April 2018 as trade unions and civil society groups are demanding... read |
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 | Bettina Büchel We are not only living in an age where women are being under-represented in many spheres of economic life, but technology could make this even worse... read |
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 | SA's cultural goods exports are growing faster than imports, according to a new report that examined the growth and structure of the country's cultural and creative industries trade between 2007 and 2016... read |
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