Legal Articles and Guides
Warning over 'deep dive' litigation
SA courts are taking two different approaches to legal battles brought by directors challenging their dismissals due to negligence. Therefore, firms should consider tweaking their memoranda of incorporation (MOIs) to avoid a potentially troublesome provision of the Companies Act.
Warning over 'deep dive' litigation
SA courts are taking two different approaches to legal battles brought by directors challenging their dismissals due to negligence. Therefore, firms should consider tweaking their memoranda of incorporation (MOIs) to avoid a potentially troublesome provision of the Companies Act.
Sun City firm ordered to change name
A shop in the Eastern Cape has been ordered to drop the words ‘Sun City’ from its registered company name after failing to oppose a legal challenge by Sun International, which argued the name could mislead the public into believing the business was connected to its well-known resort.
Court intervenes in family business dispute
The Western Cape High Court has ordered an independent investigation into governance and management disputes at Cape Town-based Gatti Ice Cream, after setting aside two resolutions passed by the company’s directors, reports the Cape Argus.
Madlanga commission
Setsiba attorneys have come to a reality that the Madlanga commission commission have climbed its way to higher south African big cases involving crime bosses and corruption, inside south Africa as a whole but point of corrections, in the Zondo commission inquiry featured Manana Setsiba, my sister and my uncle George Setsiba 's daughter and sibling to khupi Setsiba and undercover agent of South African federal Bureau agency.
Mondi SA wins name dispute
Mondi SA has won a company name dispute after the Companies Tribunal ordered a company called Mondi Workplace Services to change its name, finding it is confusingly similar to Mondi SA’s name and trademarks, reports Business Day.
Lewis takes Shoprite's Pepkor sale to ConCourt
SA’s biggest furniture group, Lewis, has approached the Constitutional Court as it seeks to block Shoprite’s R3.2bn sale of its furniture business to Pepkor, reports News24.
Outa challenges delinquent director law
The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (Outa) is heading to court to ensure that state-owned enterprises (SOE) directors can also be declared delinquent. The Public Finance Management Act protects most SOE boards, CEOs and CFOs from being declared delinquent directors.
JSE regulators take aim at cannabis firm
A question mark hangs over the fate of cannabis company Labat Africa after it received another suspension warning from the JSE, having failed to publish financial reports again.
Prominent businessman sued for R123.7m
Prominent businessman Lazarus Zim has been summonsed by a former stockbroker to pay him nearly R123.7m plus interest, for allegedly breaching an agreement linked to a broad-based black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) transaction involving JSE-listed Northam Platinum.
Signs of hope for technically insolvent Cell C
Cell C remains technically insolvent, but there are signs that it is starting to turn the corner ahead of a possible listing.
Blue Label’s name change approved
Cell C owner Blue Label Telecoms has received the requisite shareholder approval to change its name to Blu Label Unlimited.
Daybreak considers business rescue
State-owned chicken producer Daybreak Foods says it is considering business rescue, a day after officials from the National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) said it had been forced to cull thousands of starving chicks.
Rainbow Capital moves to delist from JSE
Patrice Motsepe’s African Rainbow Capital Investments (ARCI) plans to delist from the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE), offering shareholders R9.75 per share.
Reserve Bank blocks trade in Pepkor shares
The SARB has blocked trade in 506m Pepkor shares worth about R12.5bn as it continues to investigate Steinhoff.
