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On 5 March 2020, the first case of novel Coronavirus Disease of 2019 ("COVID-19"), was confirmed in South Africa. Prior to, and with the advent of the various regulations...

2020 has been dubbed a ‘throw-away' year, filled with more pressures, fears and loss as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic than many have experienced before.

The Minister of Co-operative Governance and Traditional Affairs, the Speaker of the National Assembly and the president are opposing the Democratic Alliance's application...

In Solidarity v Minister of Small Business Development and Others; Afriforum v Minister of Tourism and Others, the Pretoria High Court held that the state, acting under the regulations published in terms of...

It has been widely reported in the National Law Journal that hundreds of applications have been filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office...

Directions pertaining to the communications sector were issued on 26 March 2020 by the Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies (the "Minister"), to ensure the smooth operations of the electronic communications sector...

After every storm, there is a rainbow – Cabinet has decided to ease lockdown restrictions under Adjusted Level 3, in efforts to encouraged increased economic activity.

Measures tighten up in the centre of the storm as the national lockdown moves into the Adjusted Alert Level 3.

On the 5th of March 2020, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases confirmed that South Africa's first suspected case of COVID-19 had tested positive.

A restraint of trade is an agreement usually between an employer and an employee, and in certain instances, may be contained in shareholder agreements and be binding on shareholders.

Jacqui Reed examines a recent CCMA decision which found that an employer's mandatory vaccination policy and the rule emanating from that policy was unreasonable.

The global outbreak of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and the resultant national lockdown in South Africa has had a profound impact on many employees, in varying degrees.

In Geneva, on June 17, ministers, and delegates at the World Trade Organisation's (WTO's) Twelfth Ministerial Conference (MC12) reached an agreement on a series of key trade initiatives.

Force majeure translates literally from French as a superior force. The so-called "act of God".

The devastating impact of COVID-19 is being felt across the globe. The pandemic will highlight the inequality amongst the different classes of South Africans.

This followed a complaint from the South African Police Services (SAPS) that Blue Collar had supplied SAPS with bulk (10 000) 25lt hand sanitisers at excessive prices.

The declaration of South Africa's National State of Disaster and associated lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented.