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9 February 2012
                       
 
 
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02 Feb 2012
 
 
All work but no pay: Working for free to gain experience
CLIFFE DEKKER HOFMEYR
The Labour Market is unable to absorb most or all newly qualified work seekers and matriculants are flooding universities who can’t accommodate them. This is according to Faan Coetzee, a Director...
 
 
31 Jan 2012
 
SA less attractive to mining investors – reaction to SAIRR comments on mining investment
CLIFFE DEKKER HOFMEYR
The South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR )said this week that South Africa had become significantly less attractive as a mining investment destination since 2006.
 
 
23 Jan 2012
 
School-leavers would gain more employment if SA labour law was amended
CLIFFE DEKKER HOFMEYR
Businesses have long been calling for amendments to the labour legislation to assist in the recruitment and dismissal of workers. According to Johan Botes, Director in Employment at Cliffe Dekker...
 
 
20 Jan 2012
 
E-billing – the terms and conditions are not being clearly communicated to consumers
CLIFFE DEKKER HOFMEYR
Under the spirit and letter of the Consumer Protection Act (CPA), SANRAL ought to do more to educate consumers as to how the toll road e-billing system will work, their financial obligations (which...
 
 
09 Dec 2011
 
Competition Commission prohibits knock and drop distribution merger
CLIFFE DEKKER HOFMEYR
The Competition Commission has announced that it had prohibited the acquisition of Primedia@Home, a printed advertisement distribution business of Primedia, by Paarl Media. The Commission said it a...
 
 
24 Nov 2011
 
Public interest defence in the apartheid era
CLIFFE DEKKER HOFMEYR
There are no reported cases of a public interest defence having been successfully raised and upheld under the Protection of Information Act 84 of 1982 or its predecessor. This is according to...
 
 
21 Nov 2011
 
Constitutional Court judgment has major implications for the mining sector
CLIFFE DEKKER HOFMEYR
The Constitutional Court recently handed down a judgment with major implications for the mining sector. The decision recognised the contribution of mineworkers to the economic wealth of the country...
 
 
10 Nov 2011
 
IPP Procurement Programme – first deadline has passed
Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr
The first bid submissions for the South African Department of Energy’s independent power producer (IPP) procurement programme for renewable energy were due last Friday, 4 November.
 
 
 
                       
 
 
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