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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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            <description><![CDATA[In Mpembe v University of Zululand and Others (2025/248322) [2025] ZALCD 49, the Labour Court urgently intervened in ongoing disciplinary proceedings after the employer converted an adversarial hearing into a “paper hearing”. The judgment clarifies the limits of procedural flexibility where a disciplinary code is incorporated into the contract of employment. It confirms that employers who contract for a formal process must honour that agreement, including oral evidence and cross‑examination, and that convenience or speed cannot justify unilateral deviation. The Facts]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[CDH is pleased to announce the appointment of Megan Rodgers as Cape Town Office Managing Partner, effective 1 July 2026. A Director in the firm’s Corporate & Commercial practice and Head of its Oil & Gas sector, Megan is widely recognised as one of Southern Africa’s leading energy M&A lawyers, with extensive experience advising clients on complex cross-border transactions and projects across Africa. Since joining CDH in 2015, Megan has built one of the region’s foremost oil and gas practices ...]]></description>
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            <title>Powering Africa’s industrial future: Why electrification is a key enabler</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As the Africa Energy Forum returns to Cape Town from 16 to 19 June 2026 under the theme Building Africa’s Industrialised Future, it comes at a moment when the energy conversation on the continent is starting to evolve. For years, much of the focus has been on expanding access to electricity. That remains critical, but the conversation is shifting towards a broader question: how do African countries build electricity systems and localised generation capacity that can genuinely support industrial growth without reliance on traditional and often external sources of energy?]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Statistics South Africa's latest Labour Force Survey indicates that 5.8-million youth are without jobs. For graduates, a central issue is the growing misalignment between new entrants to the workforce and the limited availability of entry-level roles. This is particularly evident in professional fields such as law, where the number of graduates each year is roughly more than double the number of available candidate attorney (CA) positions. Compounding this is what many describe as the experience paradox. Employers increasingly seek candidates who are work-ready, yet graduates struggle to access the opportunities that would allow them to build that experience. As a result, a significant proportion of young people remain excluded from meaningful economic participation despite holding formal qualifications.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[In our alert titled “Does the dismissal of an employee affect a restraint of trade?” dated 7 April 2025, we considered the Labour Court’s decision in Backsports (Pty) Ltd v Motlhanke and Another [2025] ZALCJHB 68 (18 February 2025). In that judgment, the court held that a restraint of trade could not be enforced where an employee was dismissed for misconduct. In effect, the Labour Court found that dismissal resulted in the former employer forfeiting the right to enforce the restraint of trade. Given that this finding represented a clear departure from established authority on the enforceability of restraints of trade, we expressed the view that the issue was ripe for reconsideration on appeal.]]></description>
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            <title>What the new COFI Bill means for pension funds</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The COFI Bill proposes a single, comprehensive framework for regulating the market conduct of all financial institutions in South Africa, including banks, insurers and retirement funds. Its central aim is to ensure that financial institutions treat customers fairly, operate transparently and are held accountable for their conduct throughout the product lifecycle. COFI is a cornerstone of South Africa’s ‘Twin Peaks’ model of financial regulation. Under this framework, prudential regulation is overseen by the Prudential Authority (PA), while market conduct regulation falls under the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA). The COFI Bill equips the FSCA with a unified set of conduct tools that apply consistently across the financial services sector.]]></description>
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            <title>Applicants whose waiver application outcomes are still pending</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Visa holders who have applied for a waiver, and whose waiver application remains pending as at the issuance of the Directive, were granted a further temporary extension until 31 March 2026 to enable the DHA to process applications, as well as to allow applicants to collect their outcomes and submit visa applications. Visa holders who need to travel while awaiting the outcome of their waiver application are also allowed to depart and re-enter South Africa at a port of entry up to (and including) 31 March 2026, without being declared an “undesirable person” in terms of section 30(1)(h) of the Immigration Act 13 of 2002 (Act).]]></description>
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