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 | BRETT ABRAHAM AND MEHNAAZ BUX A recent Labour Court judgment has upheld an employer's right to require employees to have a Covid-19 vaccination or provide a weekly negative test if they decline to be vaccinated, but it leaves several important questions unanswered... read |
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 | WENDELL ROELF AND ALEXANDER WINNING The Western Cape High Court has halted construction of Amazon's new Africa headquarters after some descendants... Read |
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| |  | VALENCIA TALANE Former cabinet minister Nomvula Mokonyane may not have been found by the state capture commission to have influenced decisions in government that favoured Bosasa, but she also did not satisfactorily explain why the company showered her with gifts and favours while she was in public office... Read |
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 | CHANIQUE RAUTENBACH Per their media release of 14 March 2022, the Competition Commission referred to the Competition Tribunal for prosecution the social media group, Meta Platforms Inc and its subsidiaries, WhatsApp Inc and Facebook South Africa for abuse of dominance... Read |
 | LERISHA NAIDU AND SPHESIHLE NXUMALO It is not surprising that the South African Competition Act expressly requires that its interpretation must be undertaken in a manner that is consistent with the Constitution... Read |
| Corporate & Commercial Law |
 | MDA Attorneys has said that South African construction contractors need to factor in the risk of massive price hikes following the war in Ukraine... Read |
 | South Africa's labour department and a subsidiary of China's Huawei Technologies have reached an out of court settlement on local hiring rules, they said in a joint statement... Read |
 | Germany-headquartered software company SAP will repay SA's water and sanitation department at least R263m for license and support deals... Read |
| Environmental Law |
 | The Pretoria High Court has upheld a complaint by activists that poor air quality in the coal belt is a breach of constitutional rights... Read |
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 | ISSUED BY LEXISNEXIS Despite estate planning and administration rising in prevalence as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic and fears over mortality, data from the Master's Office indicates that 70% of South Africans still don't have a will in place... Read |
| Law Practice |
 | President Cyril Ramaphosa has asked Public Protector, Adv Busisiwe Mkhwebane, to provide him with reasons as to why he should not suspend her in terms of Section 194(3)(a) of the Constitution... Read |
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 | BRADLEY WORKMAN-DAVIES AND KERRY FREDERICKS The National State of Disaster has been extended by the Minister of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs to 15 April 2022, after which we expect the state of disaster to be lifted... Read |
 | By majority vote, the Portfolio Committee on Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) has decided not to accept a motion of desirability on the proposed Disaster Management Amendment Bill... Read |
 | The Department of Health has published the proposed health regulations to deal with Covid-19 and other notifiable medical conditions outside the National State of Disaster... Read |
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 | SOFIA CHRISTENSEN A subsea cable owned by Google that promises to double internet speeds for millions in Africa arrived in Togo on Friday... Read |
 | BATE FELIX The African Development Bank (AfDB) has secured $32.8bn in investment commitments for projects in Africa, the bank's president said... Read |
 | In a surprise announcement, Prudential Financial and LeapFrog Investments are backing one of Africa's leading independent providers of financial advice and retirement-, investment-, and wealth-management services... Read |
 | DANETTE BREITENBACH The AMA Academy, a free tool for journalists, content providers and publishers on the continent, recently launched and is available to journalists across Africa... Read |
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 | Nersa's proposed change in tariffs could see solar power users paying up to ten times more for the electricity they use from the national grid... Read |
 | Mamas Alliance's German More says there is a desperate need to channel funding to community organisations and NGOs within South Africa's more rural areas... Read |
 | By giving IT professionals the ability to leverage an API to define rules of transaction using simple code, to curate banking services and to access and send transactional data in real-time, Investec is revolutionising business- and private banking as we know it... Read |
 | "We have ascertained the source of the material, confirming it to be small glass fragments originating from a light fitting that has affected a limited batch of products only," McCain said... Read |
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 | TANIA BROUGHTON A code of practice will replace the current Covid directions when the National State of Disaster lapses... Read |
