The pandemic’s economic fallout will affect the world’s poor for years, while the richest billionaires increase their wealth, an Oxfam report notes
VAT should not be hiked, but a once-off levy on mineral resources or a solidarity tax seems likely
Ten judges say that, in the dispute between the Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe and his deputy Patricia Goliath, their colleague has shown a serious lack of integrity
In an attempt to keep customers, retailers will absorb some of the hike – for a while
The public protector’s ill-conceived report and behaviour are grounds for Parliament to oust her
MPs say transfer pricing, though legal, presents challenges when determining if firms have evaded taxation and they want the practice criminalised.
Judge has warned of the danger of politicising courts, even though the motion is of national interest, writes Andisiwe Makinana.
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/ 22 September 2009
Cape Judge Dennis Davis did not take kindly to questions put to him on Monday about Western Cape Judge President John Hlophe.
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/ 18 September 2009
The Judicial Service Commission’s grilling of candidate judges for the Constitutional Court positions kicks off in Soweto on Sunday.
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/ 25 November 2008
The political climate, with members of the ruling party labelling senior judges ”counter-revolutionary” resembles that of the nationalist government.
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/ 19 September 2008
The Competition Appeal Court has rejected a bid by dairy producers Clover and Ladismith Cheese to avoid a price-fixing hearing.
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/ 14 September 2008
With celebrations marking the 25th anniversary of the UDF barely over, another broad-based, left-leaning civil society grouping having been launched.
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/ 9 September 2008
Value Added Network Services operators now have their legal foot in the door and a central regulatory barrier is set to crumble like the Berlin wall.
A crisis in Zimbabwe? What crisis? This question was debated by three high-ranking Zimbabwean opposition politicians at the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s Critical Thinking Forum in Johannesburg on Wednesday evening. "We expect too much of South Africa," said one panellist. "There is a limit to what South Africa can do."
The chief rabbi’s confident claim of the importance of the newly published Bill of Responsibilities raises the question of the role of religion in the development of our constitutional society. The Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, as we shall show, but does religion promote the Constitution, as the rabbi claims?
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/ 21 January 2008
An application in the Cape High Court on Monday, concerning sequestration proceedings involving Fidentia’s J Arthur Brown and his wife, Susan, was ”an abuse of the judicial system”, Cape High Court Judge Dennis Davis said. In December last year, Judge Davis ordered the provisional sequestration of Brown and his wife’s joint estate.
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/ 4 December 2007
The joint estate of former Fidentia boss J Arthur Brown and his wife, Susan, was on Tuesday placed under provisional sequestration by the Cape High Court. This followed an application by the curators of the Fidentia group of companies, who claimed that the Browns owed Fidentia just over R24-million.
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/ 28 November 2007
A constitutional crisis. Instability. Business as usual. Disillusionment. The jury was out on South Africa’s immediate political future at the Mail & Guardian‘s Critical Thinking Forum held in Johannesburg on Tuesday evening. Will the African National Congress’s Polokwane conference bring popular change or business as usual?
The Independent Democrats (ID) were riding high on the eve of the floor-crossing window on Friday after Cape High Court judges rejected bids by four would-be deserters to hang on to their seats until midnight. Judge Dennis Davis turned down an application by former ID general secretary Avril Harding to have his summary expulsion from the party reversed.
A Cape High Court judge on Friday criticised what he called ”unseemly political horse-trading” ahead of the floor-crossing window, and said it resembled transfer season in the English Premiership. Dennis Davis made the remarks before rejecting an application by the former general secretary of the Independent Democrats to overturn his expulsion from the party.
The Independent Democrats (ID) won another round in the floor-crossing battle on Thursday when the Cape High Court refused to overturn the expulsion from the party of Cape Town city councillor Achmat Williams. Deputy Judge President Jeanette Traverso also rejected Williams’s bid to delay his appeal hearing against the expulsion.