Beware the “Common Law Marriage” Myth “In our law cohabitation does not have special legal consequences. Generally the proprietary consequences and rights flowing from a marriage are not available to unmarried couples, regardless of the length of their cohabitation” (extract from judgment below) If you live as a couple, avoid the trap of believing the...Continue Reading
Budget 2020: Good News for Property Sellers and Buyers, and Some Useful Tax Calculators “To support the property market, the threshold for transfer duties is adjusted” (Finance Minister Tito Mboweni) Transfer Duty Exemption Up Some good news for property sellers and buyers in particular is the increase in the transfer duty exemption to R1m. See...Continue Reading
Your neighbour builds without plans – can you get a demolition order? “The primary remedy therefore is an order for removal of the structure” (extract from the judgment below) What can you do if your neighbour has started (or finished) building without the necessary municipal approvals? In a nutshell, our courts will very probably assist...Continue Reading
COVID-19: small businesses, employment laws, and survival support “The secret of crisis management is not good vs. bad, it’s preventing the bad from getting worse” (Andy Gilman) We can only guess at how the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak will end, but let’s all take whatever concrete steps we can right now to lessen its impact on...Continue Reading
POPIA’s One Year Deadline to Start Running on 1 April? Will the main provisions of POPIA (the Protection of Personal Information Act) really commence on 1 April 2020 as media reports suggest, or is this just another case of Crying Wolf? This time it seems it may be the real thing, with the Information Regulator...Continue Reading
Running a business in a residential area – check your zoning first! If you would like to run a business from home or to buy a residential property specifically to convert it into business premises – or indeed on the other side of the coin if you want to object to a new business opening...Continue Reading
How to Stop an Ex-Director from Competing With You Big Catch Fishing Tackle (Pty) Ltd is a marketer and host of fishing and fly fishing tours in both South African and international waters. After a fall out between the two directors and shareholders (involving hotly-disputed accusations of serious breaches of duty), the one director resigned...Continue Reading
Watch What You Say on WhatsApp – The Case of the R20m Lottery Win and the R1m “Offer” As WhatsApp use grows exponentially (it just hit the 2 billion mark worldwide) we all need to be mindful of the risks that come with it. One of them is the danger of committing yourself inadvertently to...Continue Reading
Can you sue a bad investment advisor? It depends… If you want to send shivers down the spine of any investor, mention “Steinhoff”, or “Sharemax”, or any one of the many other spectacular corporate collapses that have plagued both local and overseas investors in recent times. Quite apart from the high-profile failures it’s been a...Continue Reading
Employees: your new rights to paternity and parental leave It has taken over a year of confusion and delay around when new changes will be implemented, but finally your extended rights to parental leave and to an Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) claim have fully commenced. Here’s an update/refresher – New mothers are still entitled to...Continue Reading
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