As of March 2012 South Africans will notice new regulations across the toilet tissue industry that will affect all manufacturers in the country. The industry regulatory change will impact the sheet count of toilet rolls - currently one-ply can only be made in a 500-sheet roll and two-ply in a 350-sheet roll.
22 Mar 2012 11:56Adams & Adams[Issued by Adams & Adams] In March 2012, India's controller of patents granted the country's first compulsory licence in the case of Natco Pharma Limited vs Bayer Corporation.
13 Jun 2012 15:11
[Gail Schimmel] Zuma's genitals kept me awake last night. Now there is a sentence that I never thought I would say. But I find myself struggling with this issue.
21 May 2012 13:03
[Anna Malczyk] Paralegals, sometimes called legal assistants, are integral members of the legal profession in South Africa. In essence, paralegals are legal support personnel who assist attorneys and other legal professionals in their daily work; what this assistance entails depends entirely on the legal field and the qualifications of the paralegal.
14 Mar 2012 13:01South Africa has some interesting new real estate legislation that is destined to make an impact on how investors and property owners operate within the sector. This is according to Attie Pretorius, director and head of the national real estate practice at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr business law firm.
16 May 2012 08:11Congress of South African Trade Unions general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said that there is no basis for reducing the powers of the Constitutional Court,
Business Day reports.
28 Feb 2012 11:20Five years of fraught tender procedures have culminated in the awarding of a social-grants payment contract worth more than R10-billion to a foreign-owned company with a chequered history in South Africa, the
Mail & Guardian reports. The high-stakes award has sparked a legal battle led by two losing bidders.
20 Feb 2012 10:23[Alex Matlala] Ditaba Malapane, a DJ at the Phalaborwa community radio station in Limpopo, has been dismissed from work for allegedly speaking Afrikaans on the air.
7 May 2012 10:58 While many people believe that Cape Town is a beautiful and safe place to live, this is nothing more than an illusion - if the findings of Mexican research group
Seguridad, Justicia y Paz (Security, Justice and Peace) are to be believed.
17 Jan 2012 13:53
Frankie's Olde Soft Drink Company has complained to the ASA over what it claims are Woolworths products that closely resemble some of its own. According to Mike Schmidt, Frankie's owner, "These products threaten to tarnish the very foundations on which the Frankie's brand is built." Woolworths' Zyda Rylands, MD of Food, has responded to the claim.
20 Dec 2011 12:44Business Day reports that the Judicial Service Commission (JSC) will interview on Thursday, 19 April 2012, three candidates for the key post of judge president of the North and South Gauteng division: South Gauteng High Court Deputy Judge President Phineas Mojapelo and Labour Court Judge President Dunstan Mlambo, as well as North Gauteng High Court Judge Malesela Legodi.
18 Apr 2012 12:28 Kobus Jonker, a strategy professor at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University's business school warned that the loss of a whole team or certain key personnel to a competitor had severe repercussions for the business model of law and accountancy firms,
Business Day reports.
23 Mar 2012 13:07
Human resource management (HRM) has been a misunderstood and underutilised business resource for many years - but modern organisations are waking up to the potential and competitive advantage that a strong HR team can offer.
17 Jan 2012 13:31