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JOHN YELD
The government's hush-hush approval last year of a new coal mine within a critical biodiversity and water conservation area in Mpumalanga has been reversed... read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
MyImprint, a tech startup that provides easy access to criminal record and identity verifications, is the first of its kind to innovate a digital consent verification system in South Africa... Read
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SAAM NIAMI JALINOUS
The Constitutional Court has turned down the Department of Basic Education (DBE) appeal against the landmark Norms and Standards case brought by Equal Education - and the education lobbying group is now demanding that President Cyril Ramaphosa gets involved... Read
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Corporate & Commercial Law
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JUSTINE KRIGE
The Consumer Protection Act (CPA) is the first piece of legislation in South Africa that specifically regulates franchise agreements and prescribes certain minimum requirements for such contracts... Read
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JANINE WILL
The Companies Amendment Bill, 2018 was gazetted on Friday 21 September 2018. The Bill proposes the first amendments to the Companies Act, 2008 since the Act came into effect in 2011. Some of the proposed amendments to the Act are highlighted below... Read
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Criminal Law
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President Cyril Ramaphosa says the fraud and corruption that took place at VBS was a tragedy against the most vulnerable in society, and that action must be taken against those responsible for the crime. Read
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Environmental Law
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While millions of rands have been disbursed to fight illegal wildlife trade, rhino poaching continues... Read
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KIMON DE GREEF
South Africa's fisheries authority is in a state of crisis... Read
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Immigration & Citizenship Law
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Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba says there is no policy framework that can enable the department to formalise an arrangement to enable Fireblade Aviation to have immigration services at the VVIP terminal at OR Tambo International Airport... Read
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Labour Law
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LAUREN SALT AND DONOVAN LINDHORST
In the recent case of Impala Platinum Ltd v Jonase and Others, the Labour Court (LC) dealt with an appeal against an unfair discrimination award... Read
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The Bargaining Forum in the contract cleaning sector has proposed revised wages ahead of the review of the current sectoral determination, said the Department of Labour... Read
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Legislation
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The Prudential Authority (PA) has imposed administrative sanctions on the Johannesburg branch of HSBC Bank for non-compliance with aspects of the Financial Intelligence Centre Act... Read
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Media & Entertainment Law
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The Advertising Regulatory Board (ARB) has officially launched and takes over the work of administering the Code of Advertising practice on behalf of the advertising and marketing industry, regulating the content of advertising... Read
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LEIGH ANDREWS
It's becoming harder than ever to 'kill the story' in these technologically advanced times... Read
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Tax Law
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Sars will be using information supplied by the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) to determine which companies are not tax compliant and impose penalties accordingly... Read
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HENNING MELBER
Thirty years of German settler colonialism in South West Africa - from 1884 to 1914 - paved the way for continued apartheid under South Africa... Read
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STEVE BRIGGS
Most analysts would agree that a sense of political stability and renewed national hope has swept through South Africa recently... Read
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The 21st edition of AfricaCom kicks off today, 13 November 2018, in Cape Town and is shaping up to be an impressive event... Read
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EVAN-LEE COURIE
RentMyRide is empowering locals by giving them the tools for a low-touch small business and creating competition for conventional car rental companies... Read
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It's been nine years since the annual threshold required to register as a VAT vendor was increased from R300,000 to R1m... Read
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