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Watt You Need to Know on the draft Electricity Transmission Infrastructure Regulations
30th April 2025 The draft regulations to facilitate planning for the procurement and establishment of transmission capacity by private parties (“the Regulations”)... →
Court Orders Gauteng Department of Health to Provide Cancer Treatment to Patients Awaiting Care
23rd April 2025 On 27 March 2025, the Gauteng Local Division of the High Court, Johannesburg, granted urgent interim relief in the matter of Cancer Alliance v... →
Proposed R100-billion Transformation Fund will have significant implications for Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (“BBBEE”) regulation in South Africa
23rd April 2025 On 19 March 2025, the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (“DTIC”) issued a draft Transformation Fund Concept Document for public... →
Allegations of Ethnic Discrimination Require Evidence: the Sagan Principle
23rd April 2025 In 1979 science communicator and physicist Carl Sagan wrote in his book Broca’s Brain that “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”,... →
Discrimination – it’s not unfair when its fair
23rd April 2025 In a notable judgment delivered on 6 November 2024, the Labour Appeal Court (LAC) in Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa v Hoyo ([2024] ZALAC 57)... →
The Clock Is Ticking: Labour Disputes and the Perils of Miscalculating Timeframes
23rd April 2025 The recent Labour Court decision in Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality v SAMWU obo Bukula and Others (PR174/2023) provides a sobering reminder of the... →
Labour Court Upholds Enforceability of Restraint of Trade Agreements
23rd April 2025 In the recent case of SMD Technologies (Pty) Ltd v Tavares and Another ([2024] ZALCJHB 546), the Labour Court reaffirmed the enforceability of... →
Sorry Not Sorry
23rd April 2025 In the recent Labour Court decision of Standard Bank Insurance Brokers (Pty) Ltd v Dlamini & Others (JR15/24), the issue of remorse – or rather the... →
