23rd June 2017 Swift, decisive and severe. This was the immediate reaction to the much anticipated third mining charter for the South African mining industry. No sooner had the Minister of Minerals announced, published and brought into effect the Third Charter, than the Chamber of Mines announced that it would... →

21st June 2017 Global law firm Hogan Lovells identified Africa as part of its growth strategy, and it partnered with Boomtown to successfully make its mark on the continent. Building measurement tactics into each touchpoint, Boomtown’s integrated communications strategy increased traffic to the Hogan Lovells... →

1st June 2017 In the recent case of Moraitis Investments (Pty) Ltd v Montic Dairy (Pty) Ltd (the Moraitis Case) the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) was charged with determining if a party had the requisite authority to conclude a settlement agreement. Mr Apostolos Moraitis, a trustee of the Moraitis Trust and a... →

1st June 2017 During March 2017 the Supreme Court of Appeal of South Africa handed down a decision ensuring the continued environmental protection of the Makhonjwa Mountains in Mpumalanga (also known as the Barberton Greenstone Belt).   The court was tasked to decide if the ecologically important area enjoys... →

6th April 2017 According to the Global Fraud Report, an annual publication by Kroll that ranks regions according to their exposure to incidents of cyber fraud, sub-Saharan Africa has the third highest exposure to incidents of cyber fraud in the world. In the 2016 Cost of Data Breach Study conducted by IBM and... →

17th March 2017 According to the Corruption Perception Index 2016, an annual publication by Transparency International, which ranks countries according to the perceived levels of corruption by surveys and assessment, South Africa scored 45 points out of 100. This suggests that South Africa is perceived to be a... →