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Testamentary Trusts
We all have read and heard somewhere in our lives of the importance of a Will. However, we have not heard the reasons as to why we need to make provision for a testamentary trust in our Wills. As we are celebrating Youth Month in June, we are now more aware than ever...
Cyber Crime and South Africa’s Laws
Cyber Crime in South Africa has recently become an increased concern, especially after the Liberty incident during June 2018. South Africa, like most countries around the globe, has taken a stand against Cyber crime and placed a focus on Cyber security by drafting a...
Social media-who owns the copyrights to your posts
It is impossible nowadays to come across someone without any media presence. Whether it is Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn, we are all trying to find ways to connect. As a result of this, many of us post a lot of different content from pictures to videos and...
Drafting Contracts: non-variation clauses and amendments to contracts
Often when drafting contracts, both clients and legal practitioners alike avoid properly reading and considering the implications of certain legal clauses in agreements and legal documents. These are often standard clauses used in various documents as a result of...
Barriers preventing the South African Youth from becoming Entrepreneurs
With South Africa’s high level on unemployment, South Africa’s Youth is encouraged to become Entrepreneurs. It is stated that to be successful one must work for oneself. Your Matric Certificate will not guarantee obtaining employment. Many South African Youth turn to...
Debt Reviews: How can a Consumer Terminate Proceedings?
In South Africa, more and more Consumers are over indebted and make application to a Court of Law to be placed under Debt Review. A Consumer’s financial position might not always remain the same and may improve to such an extent, that making payments in terms of the...
The Ability to Constitute Quorum at a General Meeting of a Body Corporate and the limitation of Proxys
The Sectional Title Scheme Management Act 8 of 2011 (hereinafter referred to as “STSMA”) brought significant changes to what would constitute a quorum for a general meeting of a Body Corporate in Sectional Titles Scheme. A general meeting of the Body Corporate is...
BBBEE Amendments – looking at the key focus areas
The amended Codes of Good Practice to the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act 46 of 2013 as amended were issued in October 2013 and became effective in May 2015. On 29 March 2018, the Department of Trade and Industry issued two draft statements which deals with...
Developing skills in the work place
Statutory provisions to ensure certain categories of Employees receive adequate theoretical and practical training has existed since 1922. These statutory provisions are an important and integral part of South Africa’s overall objective to reduce poverty which will...
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