Given the commitment to fiscal consolidation, tax increases of R40bn will be necessary over the next four fiscal years. Taxes are set to increase by R5bn in 2021/2022, R10bn in 2022/23 and R15bn in 2024/2025. The most effective taxes to increase would be personal...

Minister of Finance Tito Mboweni’s postponed 2020 Medium Term Budget Policy Statement (MTBPS) confirmed expectations that the mini-budget would skirt structural reforms to both bolster economic growth and create jobs. Below are 10 take-aways from yesterday’s speech: *...

Bwanya v Master of the High Court, Cape Town and Others [2020] ZAWCHC 111 The applicant (B) and R met in February 2014 and they started living together in his house in June 2014.  The undisputed evidence before the court was that R treated B as his wife.  To friends,...

It has been a volatile week on the global markets, due particularly to Tech stock taking quite a knock and vaccine trials having stumbled a bit.

Court case – Testator’s soundness of mind   Vermaak NO and Another v Jacobs and Others [2019] ZAGPJHC 346   The first plaintiff (V) took over as executor of the deceased estate of L from the second plaintiff’s (E) husband (P), after P passed away. L made a joint will...

  The government appears to have switched from control to collaboration in managing the latest phase (level three) of the Covid-19 lockdown. Whereas previous lockdown levels involved the micromanagement of what citizens could and could not do,the government...

Our Office operational arrangements for the month of June 2020..... We have, during the entire Lockdown period thus far, been lucky to have been able to operate remotely at full complement, and more recently, during Level 4, have had rotating teams operating from our...