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Court rules that banks can sell your house for next to nothing

Ohene Yaw Ampofo-Anti

When a person obtains a home loan from the bank, a mortgage bond is usually registered over their home as security by the bank...read
 
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Call for submissions on land expropriation without compensation
Call for submissions on land expropriation without compensation
The Joint Constitutional Review Committee, set up to review Section 25 of the Constitution to make it possible for the state to expropriate land without compensation, has called for written public submissions...read
AfriForum vs NPA - accusations from anonymous letter
AfriForum vs NPA - accusations from anonymous letter

Shan Radcliffe

AfriForum has filed criminal charges against National Director of Public Prosecutions Shaun Abrahams and six other senior members of the National Prosecuting Authority, following the receipt of an anonymous letter containing detailed allegations of serious misconduct...read
Wild Coast toll road: new court battle looms
Wild Coast toll road: new court battle looms

Thembela Ntongana

The SA National Roads Agency (SANRAL) has promised to respond by the end of the month to a legal challenge to the controversial R9bn N2 Wild Coast Toll Road from East London to Durban...read
Legal
How to lawyer-up against your lawyer
Lawyers are entrusted to deal with legal matters honestly, fairly and in your best interests. But sometimes this isn't always the case and instead, he or she has taken the money that was supposed to be yours... read
Corporate & Commercial Law
Is there a disconnect between profit and ethics?

Angelo Nicolaides

In this age of social media and the internet, big businesses are taken to task for unethical and non eco-friendly corporate practices by a socially conscious citizenry... read
Nersa to hold public hearings into Eskom's RCA
The National Energy Regulator of South Africa (Nersa) will hold public hearings into Eskom's Regulatory Clearing Account applications across the country, starting next week... read
Criminal Law
Abalone poaching: lifting the lid on why, how and who

Greg Warchol

Wildlife poaching has long been a subject of interest in academia. Research by biologists, zoologists and environmental scientists mostly focused on the impact of these crimes on wildlife populations and their habitat. More recently, criminologists interested in different types of environmental crimes, have started studying poaching. read
Failure to submit tax returns can get you a criminal record
Taxpayers who do not submit their tax returns will end up with a criminal record, the South African Revenue Service (SARS) said on Monday... read
Land & Property Law
Stop illegal occupation of buildings
Gauteng Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs and Human Settlements MEC Dikgang Uhuru Moiloa has renewed calls to owners of private buildings to work with authorities to prevent the illegal occupation of buildings... read
Law Practice
Independent attorney wins 2017 Best Article Award
Emile Myburgh has won the 2017 LexisNexis Prize for Legal Practitioners for the best article by a practising attorney published in De Rebus, for his piece on 'Holding delinquent directors personally liable'... read
Legislation
When debt relief causes debt distress

Joon Chong and Wesley Grimm

The proposed debt relief measures in the 2017 amendments to section 19 and paragraph 12A of the Eighth Schedule of the Income Tax Act 58 of 1962 (ITA) did not provide much relief to assist companies in financial distress... read
Could regulation stifle fintech innovation?

Patience Panashe

Ground-breaking technologies are boldly annexing the spaces that are predominantly owned by banks or other financial service providers - changing the face of finance as we know it... read
Five things you need to know about the new Financial Sector Conduct Authority

Shayne Krige

As of 1 April 2018, there is a new sheriff for the South African financial services sector. The Financial Services Board (FSB) has been replaced by the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA)... read
Minimum wage bill before Parliamentary Portfolio Committee
The Department of Labour says the National Minimum Wage (NMW) Bill and supporting Basic Conditions of Employment and Labour Relations Bills are currently before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Labour, for consideration.... read
Media & Entertainment Law
Herbex makes unproven claims about weight loss products

Anne Cebulski and Eryn Scannell

Advertising Standards Authority uses its fangs again after years of litigation... read
Dti stands by validity of copyright commission report
The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) says it stands by the validity of the Copyright Review Commission (CRC) report, which was released in 2012... read
Tax Law
Changes to controlled foreign company tax laws

Nola Brown and Sean Gilmour

The controlled foreign company (CFC) rules are aimed at preventing South African taxpayers from locating companies in low tax jurisdictions in an effort to avoid paying South African tax. read
Face lift for SA custom regulations

Dylan Govender

According to current statistics produced by SARS' manifest processing system (MPR), the country's road modality is at 76% when it comes to electronic submission compliance with sea and air lagging at 50% and 24% respectively... read
Is it worth chasing travel rebates under new SARS' rules?
Which is better - company car or travel allowance? It's a question that regularly plagues both employers and employees, and in light of new SARS requirements for travel reimbursements, it needs to be carefully revisited... read
Business
The role of mobile in building brand loyalty

Nicholas Bednall

With falling consumer confidence and a slow economic growth outlook, brands are intensifying the fight for consumer loyalty... read
Cape Town International Airport to be renamed after Nelson Mandela

Ilse van den Berg

NEWSWATCH: Airports Company SA has announced that Cape Town International Airport will be renamed but, despite Julius Malema's suggestion, not after Winnie Madikizela-Mandela... read
Ghanaian startup crowned 2018 Seedstars Global Winner
Ghanaian startup, AgroCenta, was crowned the 2018 Seedstars Global Winner at the fifth edition of the Seedstars Summit which took place on Thursday, 12 April 2018... read
Cybercrime is everywhere because businesses aren't educating

Simeon Tassev

Cybercrime has overtaken all other types of crime as humans have embraced digital technology without really understanding it... read
Bruce Daisley of Twitter on the power of amazing culture businesses (Part 2)

Jon Ratcliffe

Bruce Daisley is VP for Europe at Twitter, and runs the Eat Sleep Work Repeat podcast. In part 2 of this three-part article, I chatted with him more about Monk Mode Mornings, how one should not mistake collaboration with creativity, the Netflix culture document [Netflix Culture Deck] and more... read
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Tembeka Ngcukaitobi on #expropriation - "I was asked in 2008 by the Thabo Mbeki government to draft an appropriatio... https://t.co/IcZynJUm2U
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