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Five tips to optimise your first consultation with an attorney READ Coercive and Controlling Behaviour in the Domestic Violence Act READ An Overview of the [...]
Budget Speech 2024/2025: Tax Overview
By: The Werksmans Tax Team Download PDF INTRODUCTION Minister of Finance Enoch Godongwana was scheduled to deliver his fourth Budget speech of his term on 19 [...]
Chambers Global Rankings – 2024 Edition
Congratulations to all our ranked lawyers for maintaining the Firms' excellence in the global legal fraternity. Ranked across 19 practices areas with 37 individual lawyer rankings, [...]
COMESA’s first ever fine for Anti-Competitive Business Practices
By Nkonzo Hlatshwayo Director, Phuti Mashalane Director and Chiara Ferri, Candidate Attorney The COMESA Competition Commission ("CCC") is clamping down as they issue their first fine [...]
Employment Equity Act: Draft Regulations on Proposed Sectoral Numerical Targets
and Hanán Jeppie, Candidate Attorney On 1 February 2024, the Minister of Employment and Labour, Thembelani Waltermade Nxesi, ("Minister”) published, by way of Government Gazette, the [...]
Take note and prepare to comment – Proposed Amendments to the COMESA Competition Regulations
and Chiara Ferri, Candidate Attorney On 24 January 2024, the COMESA Competition Commission ("CCC") published its Draft COMESA Competition and Consumer Protection Regulations ("Draft Regulations"). COMESA [...]
A Snapshot of COP28: the good, the bad and the promising
It has been almost two months since the United Nations ("UN") Climate Change Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change 2023 [...]
SARS Binding Private Ruling 399: Replacing an asset shortly after its acquisition under an asset-for-share transaction
and Luke Magerman, Candidate Attorney A recent ruling published by SARS deals with the anti-avoidance implications of the disposal of an asset by a company shortly [...]
Privacy: human right or fallacy in the digital world?
"The real question is, when will we draft an artificial intelligence bill of rights? What will that consist of? And who will get to decide that?" [...]
Communities in the centre of the mining revolution: Land issues dog inclusive mining
Marking its 30th anniversary of the Investing in Mining Indaba in Cape Town, which incidentally coincides with South Africa's 30 years as a democracy, common themes [...]
Werksmans Technology Media and Telecommunications Africa Quarterly e‑Bulletin
This e-bulletin highlights key legislative and regulatory developments in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors in sub-Saharan Africa. This issue covers the period 16 October 2023 [...]
No time for dark humour in the workplace – Load shedding is no joke!!
and Tasreeq Ferreira - Candidate Attorney Issue Whether an employee's dismissal for posting a WhatsApp message, purporting to be from the employer's management, on the employer's [...]
The downside to a side hustle – moonlighting, conflicts of interest and the law
and Nombulelo Bashe – Candidate Attorney Employees are required to devote their time, effort and skills to advance their employer's business interests. It is considered a breach [...]
Mystery of the momentary visitor: Solving the uncertainty surrounding the replacement of an interim business rescue practitioner
A company can be placed in business rescue in only two ways, voluntarily by a board resolution in terms of section 129 or compulsorily by court [...]
International: Trends in AI governance
READ - INTERNATIONAL: TRENDS IN AI GOVERNANCE We're thrilled to share an insightful article featured in OneTrust DataGuidance on the international trends in AI governance by [...]
A minute before midnight, focus required! Deadline is 22 January 2024
and Chiara Ferri - Candidate Attorney The Media and Digital Platforms Market Inquiry ("the Inquiry"), which launched in October 2023, issued a Further Statement of Issues [...]
Making the dies count
and Nombulelo Bashe - Candidate Attorney On 21 April 2023 the Governing Body of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration ("CCMA") published amended Rules for [...]
Creditors now empowered to make application to declare directors delinquent
and Khanyisa Tshoba - Candidate Attorney A critical look at Vantage Mezzanine Fund II Partnership and Another v Hopeson and Others (2022/045978) [2023] ZAGPJHC 1406 (24 [...]
AI Laws – The Year in Review
DOWNLOAD AI LAWS - THE YEAR IN REVIEW PDF HERE Almost synonymous with 2023 is the term Artificial Intelligence (AI) and on a global basis, this [...]
Amendments to the Ethical Rules – a step in which direction?
On 17 November 2023, the Registrar of the Health Professions Council of South Africa ("HPCSA") published certain amendments to the Ethical Rules for the Conduct of [...]
The coming of crypto arbitration
Cryptocurrency and cryptoasset-related (crypto) disputes are on the rise globally.[1] Arbitration is becoming the dispute-resolution mechanism of choice in the crypto sector,[2] due to several features [...]
You cannot have your cake and eat it: Lessons from J 1233/20 – Busisiwe Khumalo vs IDC of SA & Bongani Luthuli
The facts of this case are simple and straightforward. Ms Khumalo was employed by the IDC. Allegations of misconduct were brought by the IDC against her [...]
The importance of placing of a complete record of the arbitration proceedings – the transcript of the arbitration proceedings
On 10 October 2023, we published our article titled "the importance of a complete record of arbitration proceedings" in a review application wherein the Labour Court [...]
Restoring a financial distressed company to solvency – is it achievable in corporate South Africa?
With continued unpredictable loadshedding schedules, a logistics crisis at our ports costing the South African economy R100 million per day, and with rampant consumer inflation (reported [...]
Five tips to optimise your first consultation with an attorney
by Ngwalemorwa Matsapola, Candidate Attorney. Reviewed by Naledi Motsiri, Director. Consulting with an attorney for the first time can be a nerve-racking experience for most individuals [...]
