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            <description><![CDATA[In the recent decision of Mohapi Thabo and Another v The State (A41/2024) [2026] ZAGPJHC (21 May 2026), the High Court considered whether cell phone records relied on by the state were admissible in circumstances where the state had failed to call a witness from Vodacom to authenticate the records formally. The judgment is significant for its treatment of electronically generated evidence and, in particular, for its confirmation that cell phone records may, depending on how they are created, constitute real rather than hearsay evidence. This decision would also impact arbitrations which deal with employment disputes. Facts]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s renewable energy ambitions are increasingly running into a practical constraint: the grid cannot yet carry all the new electrons/energy power being planned and construct by developers. While developers are advancing major wind, solar and hybrid projects, limited transmission and distribution capacity means that new generation cannot always be connected where and when it is needed and/or moved across the grid. This makes battery energy storage systems (BESS) more than a supporting and local technology. They are becoming central to how South Africa manages grid congestion, integrating renewable power and improves energy reliability for businesses. At the moment, South Africa has 72 GW of renewable energy projects at advanced stages of development, and a 220GW pipeline of renewable energy projects. But the national grid lacks the capacity to connect them to the businesses and homes that need them. ]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[According to the 26th Commission for Employment Equity Annual Report (2025/2026), women in the private sector accounted for 27.6% of employees at top management level in 2025. These statistics show that we can’t assume that the leadership pipeline has corrected itself simply because more women are visible in senior positions. One of the critical barriers to growth for women in the workplace is a subtle, unconscious bias that presents itself in the frameworks organisations use to identify leaders. That is why the real issue is whether organisations are equally capable of recognising leadership when it does not conform to a familiar mould. Principle versus practice]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Western Cape High Court recently delivered a decisive blow to a century-long patriarchal common law rule of lex domicilii matrimonii; paving the way for a fairer future for women, same-sex, and non-binary couples. According to Trusts and Estates experts from commercial law firm Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr (CDH), a woman has challenged the constitutionality of the common law rule relating to decisions based on a husband’s domicile at the time of a marriage.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the recent decision of Nkuna v Eskom Rotek Industries SOC Ltd (2024-022546) [2026] ZAGPJHC 634 (3 June 2026), the High Court considered whether an employer may disregard the outcome of its own internal disciplinary appeal process and unilaterally uphold an employee’s dismissal despite an appeal chairperson having set such dismissal aside. The court held that where the employment contract incorporates a disciplinary code that renders the appeal chairperson’s decision “final”, that outcome is binding on the employer. In those circumstances, the employer has no contractual entitlement to second-guess the appeal outcome or to resort to self-help by purporting to retain the dismissal. The Facts]]></description>
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            <title>Confidence killer: When criticism silences the traits that make women effective leaders</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Criticism. It may seem innocuous and receives less attention than other barriers to female career trajectory, but when poorly framed, it can silence the very characteristics that make women effective. We are often taught that success comes when we operate in our purpose. Like fish created to swim and birds created to fly, people thrive when they are in environments that allow them to align with their design. It is a beautiful lesson. Disconnection from purpose, however, does not always come from chasing someone else’s path. It can also result from constant criticism of the very gifting meant to be the catalyst for success.]]></description>
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            <title>92-million jobs may disappear by 2030 – but mine didn't exist in 2020</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Safee-Naaz Siddiqi, AI automation expert at commercial law firm Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, writes that with 170-million jobs projected to be created by AI by 2030, the question should not be “What if I fail?”, but rather, “What if I fly?” People fear a future where their jobs will be performed by AI. We’re standing at the precipice of what feels like a great technological culling and a future in which we may have no place. It might be predictable behaviour to most algorithms, but it is heartbreakingly human to wonder “What if I fall?”]]></description>
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            <title>The Trusted Employer Scheme re-opens for Phase II</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[After much anticipation, the Trusted Employer Scheme (TES) has re-opened for corporate employers who wish to express their interest in being included in Phase II of the scheme What is the TES?]]></description>
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