by VDT Attorneys | Sep 10, 2018 | Employment, Labour
You are correct in that a recent Constitutional Court judgment has confirmed that any employee earning below R205 433.30 annually and who has been placed by a Labour Broker for a period of more than three months with a client may be deemed to be an employee of such...
by VDT Attorneys | Sep 10, 2018 | Compliance, Litigation, Property
For over 40 years estate agents have been regulated by the Estate Agency Affairs Act 112 of 1976 (“Act”). But that is set to change with the new Property Practitioners Bill (“Bill”) which is likely to be passed into law in the near future and holds important changes...
by VDT Attorneys | Sep 10, 2018 | BEE, Tax
The B-BBEE Commission was established with the powers to oversee the overall implementation of B-BBEE in South Africa including reviewing BEE transactions entered by South African businesses. Given the strategic benefit of being BEE compliant, many businesses are...
by VDT Attorneys | Aug 24, 2018 | Award, Graduates, Honour Medal
This brings the total of outstanding law graduates that have, since the Phatshoane Henney Group honour medal programme’s inception in 2011, received these honour medals to more than 730. Established as an initiative to reward exceptional performance by law graduates...
by VDT Attorneys | Aug 8, 2018 | Child, Commercial, Estate Planning, Family, Trust
In South African law one must distinguish between two general types of trusts, namely a testamentary trust (established in your will) and an inter vivos trust, established in terms of a trust deed. The latter type includes your family trust. Both types of trust do not...
