Navigating the real estate market: Tips for buyers
Understanding the real estate market is crucial when buying or selling a property. The market’s current favour, whether for buyers or sellers, significantly impacts your decisions and strategies. Buyers’ market: When the real estate market leans towards buyers, it signifies that there’s an abundance of properties available for sale compared to the number of active buyers […]
Factors to consider before negotiating your home loan’s interest rate
As interest rates continue to rise, many homeowners find themselves contemplating the idea of fixing their home loan interest rates. Initially, when the interest rate hike began after the historically low rates experienced in 2020, experts advised against fixing rates. However, the landscape has evolved since then, and the decision to fix your interest rate […]
Rugby Football Union’s “Headache” During the Rugby World Cup 2023
The 2023 Rugby World Cup in France is currently underway, but it is happening against the backdrop of a lawsuit that is heading to court. This legal action has been initiated by an increasing number of former rugby players in their 40s and 50s who have all received diagnoses of early onset dementia, motor neuron […]
The Art of Breathing: I Failed the Breathalyser Test in My Workplace. What Now?
For years, breathalyser tests were a primary method to determine whether employees tested positive for alcohol. These results have been used by employers to sanction employees if the tests were positive. But what happens when an employee claims that a positive result on a breathalyser test is incorrect and still gets dismissed? The recent judgment […]
The Truth About Driving Under the Influence
Uncover the truth about driving under the influence (DUI) in South Africa. Learn about the strict laws, legal limits, and severe penalties for offenders. Find out how to estimate your blood-alcohol concentration and make responsible choices for safer roads. This is your guide to prioritising your safety and the safety of others, helping you avoid […]
Precautionary suspension of an employee: What are the requirements?
Employers are often challenged on the fairness of the precautionary suspension of an Employee. The inherent fairness criteria have been impacted by the decision of the Constitutional Court in Long vs South African Breweries (Pty) Ltd and others (2018) ZACC 7. The purpose of a precautionary suspension of an Employee is mainly to mitigate further risk […]
Signing an antenuptial contract before getting married does not mean you are anticipating divorce
Even though the current generation is more open to talking about virtually anything, there is still a tendency among people to avoid talking about certain topics irrespective of their paramount importance. Signing a prenup, which is more appropriately referred to as an antenuptial contract, might be one of the taboo topics in some of our […]
The rei vindicatio and the actio ad exhibendum
This article will briefly look at two actions that can be instituted simultaneously, and an alternative to each other, when you have been wrongfully deprived of possession of your property. The first action is the rei vindicatio. This action is instituted in order to claim the physical return of one’s property. The second action, which will […]
Exercise of rights and obligations under a praedial servitude
A servitude is a limited real right which entitles its holder either to the use and enjoyment of another person’s property or to insist that such other person shall refrain from exercising certain entitlements following from his or her right of ownership over and in respect of his or her property which he or she […]
Will-stipulated purchase option: Are there transfer duty impacts?
Any person drawing up a last will and testament, and who intends to include an option to purchase any of their properties, should be aware of the transfer duty implications such provision might bring forth. This article intends on discussing the before mentioned implications at the hands of the case of Secretary for Inland Revenue […]