In this article, the author deals predominantly with the judgment handed down in Edcon v Steenkamp.1 Here the applicant described its application as “a constitutional challenge”2 to section 189A of the Labour Relations ...

This article analyses the offences comprising disclosure-based market manipulation in South Africa under the Securities Services Act 36 of 2004. Disclosure-based market manipulation entails the dissemination of inaccurate ...

Section 58(1) of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 gives a shareholder the right to appoint a proxy "at any time" for the purpose of participating in, speaking and voting on behalf of that shareholder at a shareholders′ meeting, ...

The South African Companies Act 61 of 1973 has partially abandoned the capital maintenance concept by repealing the statutory procedure for a reduction of share capital, by permitting dividends to be paid out of capital ...

Company law on de facto and shadow directors under the South African Companies Act 71 of 2008 is disconcertingly undeveloped. This weakness is worrying since South Africa has become notorious for the state capture of some ...

This note critically analyses the judgment in Miller v Natmed Defence (Pty) Ltd 2022 (2) SA 554 (GJ), in which the court ruled on the validity of the removal of a director by the company’s sole shareholder. Three issues ...

The Companies Amendment Bill, 2018 proposes certain changes to the social and ethics committee established in terms of section section 72(4) of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 and regulation regulation 43 of the Companies ...

This article critically analyses the grounds for the removal from office of a director by the board of directors under s 71(3) of the Companies Act 71 of 2008. These grounds of removal are ineligibility, disqualification, ...

Both sections 71(3) and 163 of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 are innovative in South African company law in that the former section permits the board of directors to remove a fellow director from office, while the latter ...

Intellectual Property law has become the basis of a global market. The intensifying change needs of knowledge in the global economy has significant implications for Africa’s role in the global market.