by Daan Steenkamp | Apr 13, 2020 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy Perspective. Our state, as mentioned last week, had a mere half billion Rand to offer as aid following on the pandemic – because it is broke. This week, Eskom said that it will take R56bn from the existing state bailout… not to speak of SAA waiting in the...
by Daan Steenkamp | Apr 7, 2020 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy Price gouging: price gouging is wrong, right? Price gouging is driven by greed and, especially in emergencies, is simply morally wrong. Politicians love such laws as they appear to be defending people suffering from a setback and makes for happy voters –...
by Daan Steenkamp | Mar 30, 2020 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy The endless economic breast-beating and death updates are really becoming quite tiresome: what, economically speaking, happens after our isolation? Interestingly, it appears that economies rebound after wars but don’t after depressions. It remains to be seen...
by Daan Steenkamp | Mar 23, 2020 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
Economy When stocks are volatile, conventional wisdom dictates that you should invest in bricks and mortar, right? Perhaps not, somewhat overexcited predictions are that the US housing market might crash to 29-year lows. The VIX is shorthand for a measure of the...
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 | 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...
