by Daan Steenkamp | Oct 25, 2022 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Practice Generally: Erratum: in my last publication I reported that an underhand contract between married parties could not take precedence over an ANC. This was incorrect. A contract with no cancellation clause may still be cancelled on reasonable notice: Reference...
by Daan Steenkamp | Oct 12, 2022 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Practice News: In 2014 Court-Annexed Mediation was introduced in South Africa, purportedly to improve access to justice by providing a dispute resolution system which is efficient, amicable and affordable. An academic (UFS) criticises this system and suggests that the...
by Daan Steenkamp | Sep 27, 2022 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Practice News: Mkhwebane suffered 37 court losses in her reign to date. Her preliminary expenditure on court cases was R146m, R14m of which was spent on resisting impeachment. Her total is some five times more than her precursor, Madonsela, spent. You will recall the...
by Daan Steenkamp | Aug 14, 2022 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy Pipe dreams? You will recall that during last year there was much hot air spewed by politicians around the development of our eastern seaboard at Port St Johns, together with a high-speed rail link from there to Gauteng. Now it appears to be the western...
by Daan Steenkamp | Aug 3, 2022 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy This week past I was privileged to attend a talk by the Nedbank chief economist Nicky Weimar, who gave an overview on our economy, set against the world economy. Salient points raised by her were: Covid shifted consumer demand from services towards goods –...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jul 26, 2022 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy South African appear to be taking an economic pounding at present. Inflation is at a 13-year high, households are reducing expenditure, including reducing reliance on domestic workers and so on. On the other hand, things are probably not as bad as one might...
