March 2019

The Minister today committed government to a collaborative approach with the private sector in dealing with the current energy crisis in South Africa.

At the DLO Africa Power Roundtable Conference today (26 March 2019), the Minister spoke positively about the imminent release of the final Integrated Resource Plan (IRP), the unbundling of Eskom and long-term

The Constitutional Court has reminded us in the context of mineral rights that a statutory provision must be interpreted in accordance with the spirit, purport and objects of the Bill of Rights (s 39(2)) and consistently with the Constitution and consistently with international law (s 233), and the courts must apply customary law when that

Currently section 26 of the Companies Act 2008 provides only for holders of securities and beneficial interests in securities to have access to the notices and minutes of annual meetings, written communications sent generally to any class of security holders, resolutions adopted at a shareholders meeting and any documents made available in relation to such

The Western Cape High Court found that the common law duty to provide lateral support to a neighbouring property falls within the law of neighbours where the guiding principle is reasonableness. The duty of lateral support relates to contiguous pieces of land even where the land has been built on, provided the buildings have not