by Daan Steenkamp | Dec 1, 2025 | Business, Economy, Legal, Snippet, Uncategorized
Practice News A recent news report on cyber fraud noted that some 100,000 South African accounts had been hacked in the past year and R1.9 billion stolen. A part of the problem is prosecution and getting banks to disclose where the money went to; only some 500 such...
by Daan Steenkamp | Nov 3, 2025 | Business, Economics, Economy, Legal, Practice, Property, Uncategorized
Practice News The Northern Cape High Court has overruled the MEC for Agriculture, holding that rhino conservation breeding facilities may be granted permits to export rhino horns. This is hailed as a breakthrough for conservation. New rules for the Small Claims...
by Daan Steenkamp | Oct 20, 2025 | Business, Economics, Economy, Legal, Property, Snippet, Uncategorized
Practice News Lawyers misbehaving: Our former Public Protector, Adv. Mkhwebane is to stand trial for perjury in February. A report, out this morning and, on the face of it, true, is a Facebook note on the outgoing frontrunner of the R NPA, Batohi, having described her...
by Daan Steenkamp | Sep 11, 2025 | Business, Economy, Legal, Property, Snippet, Uncategorized
Gentle reader This will be my last newsletter for about a month – SWMBO and I shall be taking leave, to drink chianti & grappa! Going on leave is like doing long jump. You start off and run, you sprint, you run bedonnerd, and then, on the departure board, you...
by Daan Steenkamp | Aug 28, 2025 | Business, Economy, Legal, Property, Snippet, Uncategorized
Practice News Lawyers An Eastern Cape attorney, who had amended a court judgement to suit, has been scrapped from the roll; yawn. An advocate, a director of the National Lottery Commission, who had misused R21m for his own purposes, has been ordered to repay this....
by Daan Steenkamp | Aug 17, 2025 | Business, Economy, Legal, Property, Snippet, Uncategorized
Practice News Lawyers: The will of the late Judge Mokgoro was the subject of unpleasantness in the Kimberley High Court: one of the two wills available, had electronic signatures where wet-ink signatures of witnesses were supposed to be. One can only surmise as to...
