Your Website of the Month: Left Money in a South African Will But Living Overseas?

Website of the Month, Wills and Estate Planning / Law DotNews

What happens if you want to access a South African bequest overseas? BizNews gives you a step-by-step breakdown of how to go about it, depending on whether you are – Non-resident, Financially emigrated, or A South African resident temporarily abroad. Read also the section on taxation. Bear in mind that of necessity an article like this […]

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Your Website of the Month: Business Email Dos and Don’ts

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“The email of the species is deadlier than the mail” (Stephen Fry) Do your business emails enhance your brand or tarnish it? It’s a critical question, particularly for businesses with high email volumes (that’s most of us these days) and it’s entirely up to you what the answer is. On the one hand it’s all

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Your Website of the Month: Coming Soon – More Courts Offering Mediation Options

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“Agree, for the law is costly” (wise old proverb) The cost, delay and risk of contested litigation sometimes makes it sensible to rather try to resolve a dispute with mediation. Ask your lawyer for advice on whether your dispute is a suitable one, and if so be aware that in addition to the option of

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Your Website and Video of the Month: Before You Enter an Uber…

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Ridesharing services like Uber are convenient and popular, but you will have read of the “fake Uber” attacks and other safety concerns so on the principle of “safety first” always take a few common sense precautions when using them. Before you get into your next Uber have a good read of their “Driving safety forward”

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Your Website of the Month: Music for Productive Work

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“If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.” (Albert Einstein) Music, science tells us, really can help us work, and learn, and be creative. Earphones mean you can listen to your favourite

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Your Website of the Month: Your Selection of Budget 2019 Tax Calculators (And a Tax Guide)

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“People who complain about taxes can be divided into two classes: men and women” (Anon) How long will you work for the taxman today?Input your salary into the 2019 Tax Clock calculator and find out how many hours you will spend today working for the taxman, and at what time precisely you will finally start working for

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Your Website of the Month: 5 Steps to Business Success

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Perhaps you are an employee, dreaming of starting up your own business. Or an entrepreneur looking to leverage your practical experience into another successful start-up. Or perhaps you are the CEO of a multinational planning to launch a new venture. Small business or big, here’s a quick, practical read for you covering “what many spend

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Your Website of the Month: “Ready, Steady, Loadshed!”

Business, General Interest, Website of the Month / Law DotNews

Media reports suggest that loadshedding is likely to be with us for some time yet, and whether you happen to be at work or at home when one of the dreaded blackouts strikes, there’s nothing worse than being caught off guard. Avoid unpleasant surprises by knowing exactly when your area will go down. At least

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Websites of the Month: The Existential Dread of Gift Giving, and Science to the Rescue!

Business, General Interest, Website of the Month / Law DotNews

“Every holiday season, as we drive ourselves crazy at the mall or shopping online, soaked in the existential dread that comes from trying to find gifts our loved ones might appreciate, I think of the great writer and social critic James Baldwin, who wrote: ‘If the hope of giving/is to love the living,/the giver risks

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Your Website of the Month: 6 Ways for Your SME to Survive the Recession

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No doubt we are in for at least a year or two of difficult economic conditions, but small businesses have one important advantage over larger competitors – their size keeps them agile. That means they can adapt more quickly to changing conditions, which in turn puts them in pole position to grasp the many opportunities

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