Today sees our last newsletters for 2012, with the first of our new industry newsletters to be published on 15 January 2013, but we will keep on updating the new industry portals over the festive season.
We'd like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued support; our subscribers across all our portals continue to grow; in fact, in our new industries alone, we are now closing in on 70,000 subscribers, and for that we thank you.
We want to wish all of you a very enjoyable end-of-year break and - assuming the world doesn't end on Friday (You've heard about the predictions around the Mayan calendar, right?) - we wish you a highly successful 2013.
All the best from the Bizcommunity team!
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The dawn of 2013 brings a number of legislative changes that are looming on the horizon. This is according to Rob Cooper, director of Legislation Updates and Proposed legislation at Softline VIP, part of the Sage Group plc. 
Foodcorp has reached a settlement with the Competition Commission relating to its investigation into collusive practices in the white maize and wheat milling industries between 1999 and 2007 and will pay an administrative penalty of R88.5m. 
Denel will retrench 523 aircraft specialists after the SA Air Force (SAAF) cancelled its contract for aircraft maintenance. The retrenchments were confirmed by Denel and the trade union Solidarity on Thursday (13 December) 
Attempts by the Defence Force to fire about 600 soldiers for allegedly participating in an illegal march on the Union Buildings have suffered another setback in the courts, according to the South African National Defence Force Union (Sandu). 
SAN FRANCISCO, USA: A federal jury last week found Apple guilty of infringing smartphone call handling and camera patents held by a licensing firm in which rivals Sony and Nokia hold stakes. 
Judge Lameck N. Mukasa of the Criminal Division of the High Court of Uganda has declared that the criminal summons alleging tax evasion against the senior management and directors of MTN Uganda is null and void. 
Dentists want the High Court in Pretoria to set aside a government decision to impose regulations on their assistants, The Star reported on Monday (17 December). 
Proposed amendments to the Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) Act, have been strongly criticised by industry commentators who say it will erode the independence of the regulator. 
Water and Environmental Affairs Minister Edna Molewa and her department will today (14 December) file an appeal against a Gauteng North High Court judgment that ruled the minister had overstepped her powers when she suspended SA's Water Tribunal, the department said on Thursday (13 December). 
