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 | 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...
by Daan Steenkamp | Aug 17, 2025 | Business, Economy, Legal, Property, Snippet, Uncategorized
Practice News Lawyers behaving badly: A gentleman, having forged, amongst other things, a right of appearance certificate as attorney, was sentenced to 6 years imprisonment. Judge Parker has been found guilty of gross misconduct by our JCT. Advocate Nthai (also our...
