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Landlords likely to have stricter credit and rental checks after Covid-19 financial impact

South Africa’s rental market is likely to show only very minimal growth – if any – due to the current combination of high vacancy rates...

Here’s how South Africa’s property market has changed at the start of 2021

The demand for homes priced at less than R2 million is expected to remain ‘very lively’ in 2021 as long as interest rates remain at...

April 19, 2021 | Business, Economics, Practice

Property   House prices are again rising: the FNB’s House Price Index shows an appreciation of 4.5% y-o-y for March: the rise is attributed to...

April 11, 2021 | Business, Economics, Practice

Economy   The NUM wants a wage increase of some 68% for the lowest paid miners, up to a minimum wage of R15K per month,...

March 21, 2021 | Business, Economics, Practice

Economy What budget? The ink on the latest budget is hardly dry when we have Ace encouraging students to stand up for their rights to...

February 28, 2021 | Business, Economics, Practice

Economy The Rand and our bourse strengthened post Budget, positive growth figures were bandied about and things appeared rosy. Inexplicably (really?) economists are wary (...

Creating a Scent Décor for your home

Candle’s go back as far as man can remember as a symbol of not only light, but also a sign of respect for someone who...

Domestic Workers are now covered for compensation work-related injuries, disablement or death

The Constitutional Court, in the case of Mahlangu and Another v Minister of Labour and Others [2020] ZACC 24], has declared that parts of the...

February 14, 2021 | Business, Economics, Practice

Economy   What’s in a word? Our pretend leaders have this habit of bandying around or repurposing words which I perpetually must look up –...

February 9, 2021 | Business, Economics, Practice

Economy The latest predictions for South Africa’s spend/income ratio are that a deficit of 15.7% to GDP will result in this financial year. This is...