'The bluntest pencil is better than the sharpest mind' (Unknown) The Festive Season is traditionally a time for giving and it seems a...

'A bad neighbour is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing.' (Hesiod, 700 BCE) It seems that every community has at...

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'Big Brother is watching you.' (George Orwell) Your smartphone lets you record just about anything, anywhere and at any time. Your laptop...

' I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander’s venomed spear.' (William Shakespeare) Here’s another...

'These technological developments would have seemed far-fetched and science fiction a brief few years ago.' (Extract from judgment below)...

'It’s high time they legalised cannabis' (Anon) Much excitement has greeted the signing into law of the Cannabis for Private Purposes...

'The Consumer Protection Act 68 of 2008 (CPA) establishes a broad and comprehensive scope for consumer protection. Its purview includes...

'In life, we never lose friends, we only learn who the true ones are.' (Unknown) Lending money to a friend or family member in need...

'[w]here a seller recklessly tells a half-truth or knows the facts but does not reveal them because he or she has not bothered to...

'If cars are required to be roadworthy, shouldn’t roads be required to be car-worthy?' (Online meme) If you fall victim to a...

24 April 2024 is ‘World Intellectual Property Day’. It’s 'an opportunity to explore how intellectual property (IP) encourages and can...

'The first thing we do is, let’s kill all the lawyers.' (Shakespeare) Shakespeare must have had an unhappy experience or two with the...

'MTl's business clearly amounted to an unlawful ponzi-scheme i.e. a fraudulent investing scam promising high rates of return to investors...

Load-shedding continues to plague us and our businesses, and when tenants are connected during power cuts to their landlord’s alternative...

'A bad neighbour is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.' (Hesiod, poet of Ancient Greece) Your neighbour’s business...

'The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller but one.' (Old proverb) You buy a 'pre-loved' vehicle which turns out to be a complete dud....

'The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger' (William Shakespeare) Tripping over aisle blockages or slipping on floors made slick by...

'The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.' (Napoleon Bonaparte) This October marks the 20th anniversary of the globally...

'A fundamental principle in issue here is that nobody may take the law into their own hands. In order to preserve order and peace in...