by Daan Steenkamp | Mar 16, 2020 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy Nedbank has revised our GDP for this year down to 0.3% and says that we run a high risk of recession. The South African BER business confidence index has sunk to its lowest level in 20 years: 8 out of 10 respondents are unhappy about current business...
by Daan Steenkamp | Mar 9, 2020 | Business, Economics, Practice, Property, Snippet
Practice A short article, written by Judge Cameron, deals with our prisons system: he says that instead of the retributive approach under the previous regime, this country embraced a restorative approach to offenders and their punishment. This demanded prison...
by Daan Steenkamp | Mar 2, 2020 | Business, Economics, Practice, Property, Snippet
Practice Broke? RAF attorneys were reportedly asked to hand back their un-finalised files by Thursday last week in what appears to be a cost-cutting exercise by the RAF. Insourcing is a theoretical exercise as the expertise to handle this simply does not exist within...
by Daan Steenkamp | Feb 24, 2020 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Practice The rigidity of Roman law of contract was ameliorated by the introduction of normative principles allowing the adaptation of law to the changing needs of the times – often expressed as good faith. Law changes slowly but one must expect our law to be...
by Daan Steenkamp | Feb 17, 2020 | Business, Economics, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economics The BER announced that it expects our GDP growth to arise to 1.2% next year, double that expected for this year. The fact is that the triple challenge of poverty, inequality and unemployment will not be addressed with economic growth at this rate. The...
