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| |  | Employment and Labour Deputy Minister Boitumelo Booi says the Covid-19 Temporary Employers/ Employee Relief Fund, set up to help those who found themselves out of work due to lockdown, will be extended to August... Read |
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 | Recent research has shown that the average price of cigarettes has increased by nearly 250% compared to pre-lockdown levels... Read |
 | Part 1 of this article looked at the mergers and acquisitions market in South Africa; this part will explore M&A conditions in other parts of the continent... Read |
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| Criminal Law |
 | Justice and Constitutional Development Minister Ronald Lamola says the department will introduce a new bill that will enable victims of gender-based violence to apply for a protection order online... Read |
| Labour Law |
 | MICHIEL HEYNS AND JACQUES VAN WYK On or about 8 May 2020, the Director of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) issued an Urgent Directive in respect of access to the CCMA (the Directive)... Read |
| Legislation |
 | President Cyril Ramaphosa has signed the Border Management Authority Bill of 2020 into law... Read |
 | The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) approved the 2020 Division of Revenue Amendment Bill during its plenary sitting on Wednesday... Read |
 | ASHER NDEBELE As the world celebrated Pride month this past June, the issue of same-sex marriages in South Africa came before Parliament again, for consideration of the Civil Union Amendment Bill to address and enforce the existing rights of same-sex couples... Read |
| Media & Entertainment Law |
 | ASHLIN PERUMALL New technologies are providing marketers with the ability to receive sensory feedback, which could be used to interpret emotional responses to marketing stimuli. Such systems broadly fall into private and public systems, both of which influence their legal interpretation... Read |
| Medical Law |
 | BONGINKOSI SHOZI A number of technological advances have revolutionised human reproduction in the past few decades. One example is in vitro fertilisation (IVF), the process of fertilising a woman's eggs with a man's sperm in the laboratory... Read |
| Tax Law |
 | SAMANTHA LANCE The state of the South African economy and the shortfall in tax collection has raised the debate once more of whether affluent South Africans should be contributing more to the country's coffers through wealth tax. Read |
 | JOON CHONG Commission earners could make an argument to Sars that they should be allowed to deduct their normal range of business expenses, even if commission is no longer more than 50% of their total remuneration under the exceptional circumstances of the Covid-19 pandemic... Read |
 | Cash-constrained companies faced with scheduled dividend payments could find themselves and their preference shareholders in further financial straits if they do not act swiftly. Missing a dividend payment without renegotiating preference share terms could have devastating income tax implications... Read |
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 | MILLS SOKO The remarkable economic transformation of Asia in recent decades has attracted global attention. It has ignited scholarly and policy debates about the region's development models and strategies... Read |
 | GRACE C WU & RANJIT DESHMUKH Seven years ago the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) proposed the Inga 3 - a 4.8GW hydropower project on the Congo River - with great fanfare... Read |
 | Prior to the pandemic, Africa was identified as one of the fastest-growing consumer markets in the world, with household consumption growing even faster than GDP... Read |
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 | EVAN-LEE COURIE Melun Jeptha noticed two empty plots of land that were being used as dumping grounds and decided to do something about it... Read |
 | SOROMFE UZOMAH The global impact that the Covid-19 pandemic has had not only on public health, but on business, cannot be underestimated... Read |
 | A virtual business networking community has been launched to offer local businesses hard hit by Covid-19 a much-needed resource to help keep trading. Read |
 | LAUREN HARTZENBERG Amazon veteran Paul Misener shared insight into how the e-commerce giant approaches innovation and the profound role a diverse workforce plays in this process... Read |
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