Legal updates and opinions

Land reform, restitution and redistribution have received elevated impetus and focus in South Africa. In September 2018, President Ramaphosa announced the appointment of a ten-member expert [...]

Werksmans Attorneys has for the past two decades, been at the center and cusp of the Land Question, having successfully represented large-scale landowners, funders, investors, claimant [...]

Land reform, restitution and redistribution have received elevated impetus and focus in South Africa. In September 2018, President Ramaphosa announced the appointment of a ten-member expert [...]

Please join us as we discuss recent developments in B-BBEE and the impact on your business when applying the B-BBEE Act and Codes of Good Practice. [...]

On Friday August 29, directors Pieter Steyn, Dylan Cunard and Irma-Dalene Gouws presented a BEE seminar entitled: Unpacking the significant implications for business of the latest amendments [...]

On 29 June 2017 the Minister of Health published the final White Paper containing the proposals for the construction of a national health insurance scheme entitled [...]

Like many other industries in the world and in South Africa, the construction and engineering sectors are facing challenges in the current economic climate. With new [...]

DISSECTING FACTS FROM FICTION With only three months left before the all-important ANC Policy Conference, issues of policy stability and certainty remain the focal point to [...]

Please join us for a discussion around the latest developments in fund regulation in South Africa and major international fund jurisdictions. Topics include: The Financial Sector [...]

The environmental impacts, and associated risks and liabilities, arising from contaminated land present one of the most complex scientific and legal challenges of our time and [...]

Werksmans will be hosting our upcoming labour seminar where we will be considering implications of recent amendments within the dynamic field of labour law for employers [...]

Thami has been the Deputy Head of the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights since 2011. Prior to that he was the Head of Legal Support [...]

Doing business in Africa is associated with diverse challenges and risks and must accordingly be founded on a strong legal base. Werksmans is a founding member [...]

Werksmans Attorneys held a seminar on Wednesday, April 9 2014, entitled Unlocking the why, the how and the who of POPI. The seminar looked at the Protection of [...]

Werksmans will be hosting our upcoming labour seminar where we will be considering implications of recent amendments within the dynamic field of labour law for employers [...]

"The Land Question" continues to be the subject of intensive debate in South Africa. Land reform, one of governments’ main transformatory programmes, has itself been transformed [...]

UNPACKING THE NEW AMENDMENTS TO THE BROAD-BASED BLACK ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT ACT AND CODES OF GOOD PRACTICE. Recent amendments to the BBBEE Act and Codes will have [...]

Like most other industries in the world and in South Africa, the construction sector is increasingly taking strain. With new changes in standard templates, increasingly frustrating [...]

FORTHCOMING ATTRACTIONS: ALL THE STARS, ALL THE ACTION AND ALL THE SUSPENSE Healthcare and Life Sciences Law is currently undergoing a revolution in South Africa with [...]

We welcome 2018 with fundamental shifts and changes in regulation governing health care in South Africa as well as draft proposed regulations under our privacy laws. [...]

Environmental law is a morass of regulations, laws, statutes, by-laws, guidelines and directives. However, environmental law remains an important part of business operations in so far [...]

Please join us for our first webinar where we will be considering implications of the proposed amendments to the Labour Relations Act (LRA) relating to industrial [...]

Werksmans Attorneys, in association with the Arbitration Foundation of South Africa (AFSA), Africa ADR and the Association of Arbitrators, invites you to a presentation on the [...]