Legal updates and opinions

As an emerging market, South Africa offers opportunities for investors to consider the purchase of valuable assets that might become available at heavily-discounted prices due to companies facing [...]

The publication of the Medical Schemes Amendment Bill and its twin, the National Health Insurance Bill, present a fundamental change in the funding of access to [...]

The much-anticipated report of the Expert Advisory Panel on Land Reform and Agriculture was published on 28 July 2019, contained in 144 pages. Our Director and [...]

NEW YEAR, NEW RULES: KING IV™ AND DIRECTORS' DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES In a changing world where information is literally at the fingertips of society at large, [...]

Assign Services (Pty) Limited v National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and Others [2018] ZACC 22. Werksmans Labour & Employment Practice invite you to attend [...]

Werksmans Attorneys invites you to our Labour and Employment seminar where we will be covering the topics below: An analysis of important decisions recently handed down [...]

Join Werksmans at our upcoming seminar arranged by the Financial Services Regulation practice group where we will be discussing: · What to expect in 2017 in [...]

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 [...]

Land reform has not ceased being a topical issue that has dominated the headlines post democracy in South Africa. Werksmans' offering in this area is at [...]

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

Werksmans Labour & Employment Practice invite you to attend our annual employment law seminar where we will be considering implications of recent developments in employment law. [...]

Land reform has not ceased being a topical issue that has dominated the headlines post democracy in South Africa. Werksmans’ offering in this area is at [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]