Buying a property in your 20s

Is Now the Right Time for Millennials to Buy Property in South Africa? The property market has been a more advantageous ground recently than it has been in the past few decades. Especially if you are a millennial, whose news feed keeps you updated on just about everything that goes on in the world, it’s not something that has gone unnoticed. This […]

Defamation

What are the requirements? The Bill of Rights as contained in the South African Constitution protects human dignity. Defamation violates a person’s dignity, and more specifically his or her reputation or fama. It thus follows that a person who is defamed must have legal recourse to protect and vindicate their constitutional right. A party who intends to claim for defamation must do […]

Ways to grow your business as a sole proprietor

Making the Most of Your Sole Proprietorship in a Volatile Economy Running a business as a sole proprietor, especially in a highly volatile economy, is a momentous task. You started your business because you believed that, at least to some extent, you could make the world a better place and provide a service/product that would benefit others. Unfortunately, running […]

Contracts tacitly novated after expiry of a fixed-term contract

LAC Ruling on Fixed-Term to Permanent Employment In Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries v Teto and Others,1 the Labour Appeal Court (“LAC”) considered whether the termination of employees initially engaged on fixed-term contracts constituted a dismissal on the basis that the employees had become indefinitely employed when they were permitted to work beyond the expiry date in their fixed-term […]