Property Review 2018 – 09

Market split: sectional titles make up 59% of all Cape Town property sales.   A report on the KZN property scene in Industrial & Business holds that we are in a buyers’ market at present: there are more homes listings for sellers to compete with and fewer...

Business Review 2018 – 08

The SA sugar industry has had a 27% yoy reduction in sales, owing to our sugar tax coupled with significantly lower world sugar prices. The latter is attributable to cross-subsidisation of sugar production elsewhere.   VBS bank: the funds plundered from that bank is...

Timber Farming and the National Water Act

– Dr John Scotcher   Prior to 1972, the establishment of large-scale state-sponsored and private afforestation was promoted to supply the increasing demand for mining and structural timber. There were no laws before 1972 that limited the expansion of plantation...

Practice Review 2018 – 06

Order without law: ADR Universities, in the past, taught on the assumption that litigation is the primary method of dispute resolution. This mindset is therefore that which tends to dominate when lawyers are involved in dispute. Private ordering is the term used when...

Snippet 2018 – 07

Asad Essa is a sports commentator luxuriating in the World Soccer Cup spectacle. He laments the hijack of the beautiful game by nationalism and capitalism. Perhaps, but one does play for one’s country, doesn’t one? One also plays for money – who else other than filthy...