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![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/565617-400x208.jpg?2) | In a webinar held by PSG, Jacques Pauw, author of The President's Keepers, told viewers the lockdown is only part of the reason the illegal cigarette trade in SA is thriving... read |
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![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/565557-120x120.jpg?2) | Judge Andre le Grange has ordered insurer Guardrisk to pay out a Cape Town restaurant's business interruption claim to the applicants, Café Chameleon... Read |
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Competition Law |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/565021.jpg) | The Competition Tribunal has slapped pharmacy group, Dis-Chem, with a R1.2 million fine for excessively overpricing surgical masks during the Covid-19 pandemic... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/565509.jpg) | LERISHA NAIDU AND RYAN MCKERROW The Constitutional Court recently delivered a judgment invalidating the commonly applied legislative interpretation that anti-competitive conduct that ceased more than three years ago would not be vulnerable to prosecution... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/565651.jpg) | The Competition Tribunal has confirmed three consent agreements relating to Covid-19 excessive pricing complaints... Read |
Criminal Law |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/565059.jpg) | No company should ever think it can operate in South Africa and not comply with the labour laws that have been designed to protect both workers and employers... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/565655.jpg) | The Department of Correctional Services has warned its suppliers and potential suppliers about scammers pretending to be representatives of the department and issuing fraudulent Request for Quotations (RFQs)... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/565981.jpg) | Government has taken a harder stance regarding lockdown regulations, as can be seen by Sunday's announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa, of the reintroduction of the ban on alcohol as well as the nightly curfew... Read |
Intellectual Property Law |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/565608.jpg) | REINARD KRUGER The question surrounding the ownership of copyright is becoming increasingly relevant to businesses, particularly when they outsource the creation of works to independent people or companies... Read |
Labour Law |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/565266.jpg) | Labour unions, representatives of non-unionised managers and ground staff have agreed to accept the South African Airways (SAA) voluntary severance packages (VSPs)... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/565880.jpg) | Are companies relieved of their duty to care for the well-being of their employees during this lockdown period? Angelique Montalto, Regional Sales Director at SAP Concur, clarifies the situation... Read |
Law Practice |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/564999.jpg) | The Department of Social Development says it has noted the High Court ruling on Monday that all private preschools and Early Childhood Development centres (ECD) may open with immediate effect, provided they maintain safety measures... Read |
Legislation |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/565542.jpg) | SESHREE GOVENDER AND NONJABULO MTHEMBU On 19 June 2020 the Minister of Finance, in terms of the Financial Intelligence Centre Act, 38 of 2001 (FICA), published proposed amendments to Schedules 1, 2 and 3 for public comment. The proposed amendments will align FICA with the current International Standards of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) as well as recent legislative amendments... Read |
Media & Entertainment Law |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/565824.jpg) | The broad, global migration towards virtual platforms following widespread Covid-19 lockdowns has highlighted the need for the digital privacy of children to be properly secured and protected. With more time spent in the digital world, child exposure to digital marketing is growing rapidly... Read |
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![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/565734-120x120.jpg?2) | KALU OJAH Independence is a cardinal pillar for organisations that are set up to deliver a public good. Their success depends on it... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/565563-120x120.jpg?2) | TIMOTHY A CAREY, AGNES BINAGWAHO & JUDY KHANYOLA This year - 2020 - marks the 200th anniversary of Florence Nightingale's birth. It's therefore understandable that it's being marked as the year of the nurse and midwife... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/565420.jpg) | SANDY RHEEDER From humble beginnings in a London flat in 2005, to an African fintech giant in 2020, Mukuru's journey has been one of turning challenges into opportunities for innovation... Read |
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![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/565798-120x120.jpg?2) | JOANNE VAN DER WALT Covid-19 put inequality in the spotlight. With millions of people without jobs and forced into poverty, the work of NGOs has never been more crucial... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/565474.jpg) | ALAIN TSHAL, Everyone is fair (and likely) game when it comes to identity theft. That is true at the best of times, but the Covid-19 pandemic has only intensified cyber fraudsters' hunt for the susceptible and vulnerable... Read |
![](https://www.bizcommunity.com/c/2007/565047.jpg) | The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) in South Africa came into effect on 1 July 2020. If you have waited with your compliance project, you need to act fast... Read |
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