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 | President Cyril Ramaphosa has honoured the late human rights lawyer and social activist, Advocate George Bizos, by declaring a Special Official Funeral Category 1 for him... Read |
 | ISSUED BY BIZCOMMUNITY.COM There's never been a better time to rewrite the future or a better time to come on board to sponsor BizTrends... Read |
| Corporate & Commercial Law |
 | RISHAL BIPRAJ An issue, which has been shrouded in uncertainty in South African contract law, is when courts may refuse to enforce valid contractual terms on the basis that it considers that enforcement would be unfair, unreasonable or unduly harsh. The Constitutional Court in the case of Beadica 231 CC and Others v Trustees for the time being of Oregon Trust, has finally offered some clarity... Read |
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| Environmental Law |
 | JOHN YELD It is back to the drawing board for a giant new wind farm project on the West Coast, following an appeal decision by Environment Minister Barbara Creecy... Read |
 | International commercial trade of rhino horn and derivatives remains prohibited in terms of the Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and the South Africa's CITES regulations (2010)... Read |
 | The Department of Water and Sanitation has welcomed a court order issued against the Dr Ruth Segomotsi Mompati District Municipality to refrain from polluting water resources... Read |
| Labour Law |
 | JACQUES VAN WYK AND ANDRE VAN HEERDEN Dismissing an employee for lodging a false grievance does not amount to an automatically unfair dismissal... Read |
| Law Practice |
 | The Department of Employment and Labour in the Western Cape has closed the Oudtshoorn Magistrate Court for not complying with Covid-19 regulations... Read |
| Legislation |
 | DANIEL LOTTER Right now, there's a word that's keeping many South African business executives awake at night - and it's not just Covid-19... Read |
| Tax Law |
 | JOON CHONG AND WESLEY GRIMM The National Treasury published the Draft Taxation Laws Amendment Bill, 2020 (Draft Tax Bill) for public comment. One of the more contentious proposals in the Draft Tax Bill relates to the ability of people emigrating from South Africa to access amounts in their pension preservation fund, provident preservation fund and retirement annuity fund (retirement funds) when they leave... Read |
 | VIRUSHA SUBBAN AND PRENISHA GOVENDER The Disaster Management Tax Relief Administration Bill 2020 seeks to alleviate cash flow burdens on taxpayers, which may arise as a result of Covid-19 restrictions implemented under the Disaster Management Act... Read |
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 | Wall Street, the historic headquarters of some of the largest US brokerages and investment banks, however, as Africans we can recreate this and build our own "Wall Street" on the African continent... Read |
 | With a region as large and as vast as Africa, it is difficult to imagine a fully connected continent where every individual across all demographics, and every business across all sectors can harness the power of cloud computing... Read |
 | After identifying a need for medical consumables and disposables to difficult-to-deliver regions and rural communities across Africa, Tony McPherson launched McPherson Trading, a tender based procurement consultancy to help fill this gap... Read |
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 | MIA PAPANICOLAOU When we look back on 2020, we'll remember it as the year everything changed. Customer communication is no exception... Read |
 | INA SKOSANA This week the University of Oxford and Astra Zeneca temporarily postponed further vaccination in clinical trials of the Covid-19 candidate vaccine, AZD1222, after one of the participants fell ill... Read |
 | BRONWYN WILLIAMS Bronwyn Williams reflects on Dan Carlin's The End Is Always Near and Ariel and Will Durant's The Lessons of History and says the choice is ours to learn the lessons of history or to repeat the mistakes of the past... Read |
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