Website of the Month: COVID-19 – Entrepreneurs and Your Growth Opportunities

Business, Website of the Month / Law DotNews

“Never let a good crisis go to waste” (Winston Churchill) The COVID-19 coronavirus crisis will, like all crises, eventually give way to economic and societal recovery. Even before that inevitable upturn actually sets in, entrepreneurs should remember that times of great risk and challenge are also times of great opportunity. So get your team together now

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Running a Business in a Residential Area – Check Your Zoning First!

Litigation, Property / Law DotNews

“It is unquestionable that an owner of land is not permitted to perform activities which contravene the restrictive title conditions or the zoning restrictions” (extract from judgment below) You decide to open a home business, or perhaps you are about to buy a house in order to run a business from it. You apply for

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Budget 2020: Good News for Property Sellers and Buyers, and Some Useful Tax Calculators

Economy, Property, Tax / Law DotNews

“To support the property market, the threshold for transfer duties is adjusted” (Finance Minister Tito Mboweni) Transfer Duty Exemption Up Some good news for property sellers and buyers in particular is the increase in the transfer duty exemption to R1m. See the table below for details and note that with all the brackets being adjusted

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Watch What You Say on WhatsApp – The Case of the R20m Lottery Win and the R1m “Offer”

Contract / Law DotNews

“Engage brain before hitting send” (Anon) WhatsApp comes with a host of business and personal benefits, and its use is growing exponentially here as in the rest of the world. Which brings us to a possible downside – binding yourself to a legally-enforceable agreement without really meaning to. First principles: Offer + Acceptance = Contract

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POPIA’s One Year Deadline to Start Running on 1 April?

Business, Information Technology Law / Cyberlaw / Law DotNews

Will the main provisions of POPIA (the Protection of Personal Information Act) really commence on 1 April 2020 as media reports suggest, or is this just another case of Crying Wolf? This time it seems it may be the real thing, with the Information Regulator having formally requested the President to declare the commencement date.

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Website of the Month: South Africa in the 2020s – High Road or Low?

Website of the Month / Law DotNews

“Will the 20s roar like they did in the last century or will the outcome be different?” (Clem Sunter) What exactly is in store for us South Africans in the Twenty-Twenties? It’s a vital question not only for business and for investors, but for us all on the most personal level. Of course it’s also

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Does an Expired Lease Automatically Continue Month-to-Month? At What Rental?

Property / Law DotNews

Close your eyes –Landlord knockingOn the back door(Jack Kerouac; Northport Haiku) Your residential fixed-term lease expires but for whatever reason you dont sign a new one. Nor does the lease say anything about what will happen on expiry. Is there still any form of valid lease in place and if so what terms and conditions

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Employees: Your New Rights to Paternity and Parental Leave

Business, Employment and Labour Law / Law DotNews

People who say they sleep like a baby usually dont have one (Psychologist Leo J Burke) It has taken over a year of confusion and delay around when new changes will be implemented, but finally your extended rights to parental leave and to an Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) claim have fully commence. Heres an update/refresher

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Can You Sue a Bad Investment Advisor? It depends…

Delict and Civil Claims, Personal Finance / Law DotNews

I always advise people never to give advice (P. G. Wodehouse) If you want to send shivers down the spine of any investor, mention Steinhoff, or Sharemax, or any one of the many other spectacular corporate collapses that have plagued both local and overseas investors in recent times. Quite apart from the high-profile failures its

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Report Your Traffic Accident with an Online Reporting Service

General Interest, Road Traffic / Law DotNews

Traffic accidents, your fault or not, are traumatic affairs. Even minor dings come with their hassles – panel beaters, tow trucks, shock and recriminations, reams of paperwork, having to get a Crash Report Number for the insurers… That last bit has always been a major added stress factor, requiring a trip to the local police

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