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            <title>From policy direction to regulation: Is South Africa finally achieving rapid deployment?</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In September 2024, we published an article examining whether Government was aligned in its approach to enabling the rapid deployment of electronic communications networks and facilities, highlighting a persistent disconnect between national policy objectives and municipal implementation, particularly in the context of the Standard Draft By-Laws for Deployment of Electronic Communications Facilities (“Draft By-Laws“), gazetted on 24 February 2023. We identified several specific deficiencies in ...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[South African labour law is often discussed through the lens of employee protection. That is unsurprising. The Labour Relations Act, the Basic Conditions of Employment Act, and the raft of constitutional rights underpinning workplace regulation were all designed to address historical inequality and imbalance in the employment relationship. Yet, somewhere in the modern discourse, a dangerous misconception has emerged: that employers are little more than passive participants in their own businesses, stripped of the ability to manage risk, enforce standards, and protect commercial sustainability. That is not the law.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Many businesses assume that once a customer has consented to direct marketing, they may continue contacting that customer unless the consent is expressly withdrawn. South Africa’s updated direct marketing regime may challenge this assumption. Where a customer has expressly consented to receive direct marketing but later registers a pre-emptive block on the National Opt-Out Registry (the “Registry”), businesses face a difficult question: should the earlier consent or the later Registry entry ...]]></description>
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            <title>Navigating the termination of conditional offers of employment: What employers need to know</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In today’s highly competitive employment market, securing the most suitable candidates is of paramount importance to the success of a business. Employers must however be careful to vet prospective employees so as to protect the interests of the business.  Offers of employment are therefore increasingly subject to conditions and requirements which if not met may lead to the termination or cancellation of employment or an offer of employment. In Makakaba v APT Engineering JV [2024] 4 BALR 385 (CCMA), the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (“CCMA“) decided on a dispute where a prospective employee claimed to have been unfairly dismissed without a disciplinary hearing, following a background check conducted by APT Power Engineering JV (“the Company“) which indicated a prior criminal conviction.]]></description>
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            <title>South Africa: Merger notification thresholds and filing fees increase from 1 May 2026</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South Africa’s Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition has, in a notice, published revised merger notification thresholds and filing fees under the Competition Act 89 of 1998 (“Competition Act“), effective 1 May 2026. The updated thresholds raise the turnover and asset values that determine whether a transaction is classified as a small, intermediate, or large merger, meaning that some deals which previously required mandatory notification may now fall below the filing threshold. At the same time, the filing fees payable on intermediate and large merger notifications have been increased. These changes will be relevant to any business contemplating M&#38;A activity with a South African dimension from 1 May 2026 onwards. What has changed?]]></description>
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            <title>“Corporate Death by Winding-Up”: Pretoria High Court Reaffirms the Badenhorst Principle</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A recent judgment handed down by Nyathi J in Maralco Business Advisors CC t/a Maralco Plant Services v GMK Civils Proprietary Limited, serves as an important reminder that liquidation proceedings are not a debt-collection mechanism where the underlying indebtedness is genuinely disputed. The matter concerned an application for the final winding-up of GMK Civils Proprietary Limited on the basis that the company was allegedly unable to pay its debts as contemplated in section 344(f), read with section 345(1)(c), of the Companies Act 61 of 1973. The applicant alleged that the respondent was indebted to it in the amount of R817 994.50 arising from a plant rental facility allegedly concluded on a thirty-day basis and supported by a certificate of balance.]]></description>
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            <title>Out with the Old: South Africa’s Proposed Overhaul of Exchange Controls and the Inclusion of ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On 17 April 2026, in Government Notice No. 54520 under Government Gazette 7375, the Minister of Finance (“Minister“) published the draft Capital Flow Management Regulations in terms of section 9(1) of the Currency And Exchanges Act 9 of 1933 (“Draft Regulations“) for public comment. The Draft Regulations follow the Minister’s 2026 Budget Speech, which announced further exchange control reforms. These reforms aim to bring crypto assets within the capital flows management framework. The Draft Regulations complement two earlier regulatory developments, namely, (i) the Financial Sector Conduct Authority’s declaration of crypto assets as a financial product in General Notice 1350 of 2022 in Government Gazette 47334, and (ii) the inclusion of crypto asset service providers as accountable institutions under Item 22 of Schedule 1 of the Financial Intelligence Centre Act 38 of 2001.]]></description>
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            <title>Business Rescue Applications Under Scrutiny: business rescue orders are not there for the taking!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[This article considers the recent decision in Trustees, Inkwazi Trust v Skema Holdings (Pty) Ltd and its implications for business rescue applications under section 131 of the Companies Act 71 of 2008. The judgment reinforces the principle that access to business rescue is not automatic and that courts will closely scrutinise whether a credible and factually supported basis for rescue exists. It also highlights the importance of demonstrating that the company itself, and not the wider group, is ...]]></description>
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