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 | President Jacob Zuma has signed into law the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa Amendment Act, 2014 (Act No.2 of 2014), the Presidency said on Friday, 11 April 2014. Read more >>
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 | Lize de la Harpe The question often arises why a spouse can't claim from an annuity in the case of a divorce. The answer lies in the applicable legislation, specifically the Pension Fund Act and the Divorce Act. The aim of Section 37A of the Pension Funds Act is to protect a member's pension benefits from his/her creditors, and it expressly limits a fund's ability to deduct amounts from a member's pension benefit. Read more >>
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 | Bobby Jordan Property developer Pierre Gerber thought he owned a share of a pristine Karoo koppie outside Ladismith in the Western Cape. Read more >>
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 | The public protector's office has met the National Consumer Commission to discuss motorists' complaints about Sanral's e-tolls billing system. Read more >>
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 | The Gauteng Gambling Board's pending decision on whether Sun International can relocate its Morula Casino from Mabopane, north of Pretoria, to Menlyn, in Pretoria, East, is likely to be contested in court. Read more >>
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 | Thabiso Mochiko Telkom has instructed its lawyers to write a letter to the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) demanding clarity on its decision that the group's Chief Executive‚ Sipho Maseko‚ attend a corporate governance and director's duties course. Read more >>
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 | ICASA asked the SABC and MultiChoice to provide a copy of the agreement but both parties have failed to honour that request, hence ICASA has turned to the Competition Commission. Read more >>
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 | Megan Badenhorst The promulgation of the Consumer Protection Act ushered in a new era for consumers and stipulates that a retailer cannot display goods for sale without displaying a price for those goods. However, the wording in respect of how that price should be displayed, is fairly wide. Read more >>
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 | The long-term insurance ombudsman office has put R103m back into the hands of consumers who received poor service from their insurance companies last year. Read more >>
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 | The South African government could choose to be a global player or a lonely outlier by alienating itself from unprecedented international efforts to crack down on illicit trade and poaching of wildlife such as rhinoceroses, says IFAW director, Jason Bell. Read more >>
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 | Human Settlements Minister Connie September has ordered a thorough investigation into allegations of incomplete and shoddy houses built in Wallacedene, Cape Town. Read more >>
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 | The Right2Know Campaign and SOS: Support Public Broadcasting, are taking on the SABC following reports that editorial staffers' phones are being monitored. Read more >>
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 | Customers must prevent criminals from hacking into their email accounts to obtain bank account information or issue illicit instructions to their banks‚ the South African Banking Risk Information Centre (Sabric) has warned. Read more >>
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 | A research report issued by DLA Piper, which contained a South African chapter quoting the head of the Employment Practice at Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, Aadil Patel, has received the attention of the South Africa judiciary system, when it was quoted in a judgement delivered in April this year in the South African Labour Court. Read more >>
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 | Jacques van Wyk and Andre van Heerden According to Sections 34(1)(a) and 34(2) of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act of 1997 (BCEA), an employer can make a deduction from an employee's remuneration for any losses or damages caused by the employee's negligence during the course of employment, provided the requisite requirements are met. Read more >>
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 | Olga Meshoe The revised generic Codes of Good Practice (Revised Codes) which were promulgated on 11 October 2013, provided for a transitional period of 12 months during which entities are to familiarise themselves with and understand the provisions of the Revised Codes. Read more >>
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 | Mohsina Chenia and Shungu Mariti In the recent case of Steven Group v Renaissance BJM Securities (Pty) Ltd, the Labour Court was faced with the question whether an employee is entitled to payment of deferred equity compensation after he terminated the employment contract making provision for such payment. Read more >>
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 | Michael Yeates and Shungu Mariti During the course of 2007/2008 South Africa witnessed an influx of Zimbabwean nationals, mostly refugees fleeing their country for economic and political reasons. The majority of these Zimbabwean nationals were undocumented and those who applied for asylum waited long periods for their applications to be processed. Towards the latter part of 2008 it was estimated that there were approximately two million Zimbabweans living in South Africa; of these only about 275,000 were documented. Read more >>
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 | Peter Hesseling, Johan Latsky and Aadil Patel have been named as winning partners in the 2014 Client Choice International Awards which were announced in London recently. Hesseling and Latsky are directors in the Corporate and Commercial practice, while Patel is national head of the Employment practice at business law firm Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr. Read more >>
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 | Françoise Henderson Consider again the extraordinary achievements of Thamsanqa Dyantyi, the world's worst sign-language interpreter. Read more >>
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 | Law firm Webber Wentzel has been named Law Firm of the Year in South Africa by Who's Who Legal. The award was announced at the Who's Who Legal Annual Awards, which were held at the University Club in New York recently. Read more >>
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 | ANKARA, TURKEY: Turkey's government said it would keep its block on YouTube in place despite two separate courts ordering the ban be lifted. Read more >>
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 | LUXEMBOURG Europe's top court has struck down a European Union (EU) law forcing telecommunications operators to store private phone and email data for up to two years, judging this law was too invasive, despite its usefulness in combating terrorism. Read more >>
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 | OTTAWA, CANADA: Canada's tax agency shut its website on Wednesday (9 April) after warning that encrypted taxpayer data could be vulnerable to the "Heartbleed" bug. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: US computer giant Hewlett-Packard agreed to pay US$108m to settle investigations that it paid bribes to win public contracts in Russia, Poland and Mexico, officials said on Wednesday (9 April). Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: The top US film studios have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against defunct file-sharing website Megaupload, shut down by US authorities as part of a criminal probe of online piracy. Read more >>
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 | North West Premier Thandi Modise says she is confident that learners, who missed classes at 45 schools as a result of violent protests in the province over the past week, will be able to attend school once again from today (14 April). Read more >>
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 | Labour Minister Mildred Oliphant reassured critics of the controversial draft regulations on employment equity that proposed guidelines for quotas would not prejudice coloureds and Indians. Read more >>
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 | Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Lechesa Tsenoli has strongly condemned the violent protests in Boitumelong, Bloemhof, in the North West. Read more >>
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 | Government officials in the North West province have appealed for calm amid violent protests in Boitumelong and Coverdale townships near Bloemhof. Read more >>
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 | Ministers in government's security cluster have written a letter to the Public Protector, Thuli Madonsela asking for clarity on several aspects of her report on the security upgrades at President Jacob Zuma's Nkandla residence. Read more >>
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