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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...

January 24, 2021 | Business, Economics, Practice

Economy Broke: a year ago, our economy was trundling along without any great prospects but with cracks starting to show. It took a decent crisis,...

December 5, 2020 | Business, Economics, Practice

Gentle Reader This will be the last of snippets this year – I will resume towards the end of January. We wish you a great...

November 28, 2020 | Business, Economics, Practice

Economy   Almost as aside, the SEF and SFF obtained a Western Cape High Court order setting aside the 2015 sale of its strategic oil...

November 14, 2020 | Business, Economics, Practice

Economy   Spending more: South Africa is burning up money it does not have at the rate of R2.1bn per day and has extended social...