by Daan Steenkamp | Apr 30, 2018 | Business
The role of salary in motivation is oft explored; the summation of which is self evident: salary matters much for the poor and much less for the wealthy. Large organisations tend to award across the board salary increases, which, incidentally, is going to be about 3%...
by Daan Steenkamp | Apr 30, 2018 | Snippet
Much was made of the Reserve Bank suspending VBS Mutual Bank, including allegations that this was anti-black et cetera. The latest news holds that a material portion of the deposits at this bank cannot be verified. If this is true the Reserve Bank may well have saved...
by Daan Steenkamp | Apr 26, 2018 | Cases, Legal
Water discharge on to a lower property. A long-held tenet of our neighbour law is that the owner of a property is obliged to accept the water discharge from that of a property situated above it, provided that the water is not concentrated in that discharge. A recent...
by Daan Steenkamp | Apr 24, 2018 | Property
Despite the improving South African economic outlook, our average house price growth has declined fairly dramatically to 2.6% in the 1st quarter, down from 5% in the quarter before. I have little doubt that this is to a large extent attributable to a slowdown in the...
by Daan Steenkamp | Apr 23, 2018 | Business
Much was said about the recent signing of power purchase agreements between Eskom and a handful of independent renewable energy power suppliers. One cannot, however, help but wonder whether the push against corruption (think kickbacks on a nuclear plan) and resistance...
