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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 | 
The Maintenance Amendment Act, aimed at cracking down on child maintenance defaulters, came into effect today (5 January)...read |
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 | 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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 | 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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 | 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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 | 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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 | 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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 | 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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 | Three law enforcement officers have been arrested by the Hawks' Serious Anti-Corruption Unit for allegedly stealing R1 million... read |
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 | Suspected human trafficker Chibuike Innocent Nwosu (39) has been remanded in custody by the Cape Town Magistrate's Court... read |
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 | 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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 | Jacques van Wyk Can an offer to employment which is later withdrawn amount to a dismissal? read |
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 | 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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 | 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'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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 | 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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 | 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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 | 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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 | 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 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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 | 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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 | 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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 | 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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 | 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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 | 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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