When feeling aggrieved over matters relating to finance, insurance and banking, one may feel that they have no recourse when in fact there are a number of statutory and regulatory bodies that observe these sectors.

Part A of Schedule 4 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act of 1996 provides the functional areas of concurrent National and Provincial Legislative Competence.

On 31 March 2011, the Consumer Protection Act, already referred to as the CPA, comes into force. Described by commentators as a revolutionary and radical law......

“The Customer is Always Right”, so the saying goes. Some of would agree, others would hesitate before saying: “Well, it depends….”. This is part 1 in a series of articles on the new Consumer Protection Act, designed to prepare businesses for

RICA is the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information Act.

The following excellent article was penned by Paddy Hartdegen for Property 24. It focuses on the contentious issue of low cost housing that has received much media attention of late. He also expresses strong opinions with regard to the future of the NHBRC

Investigative journalist Bongani Bingwa of the Carte Blanche team, recently reported the existence of an internal confidential document, a business report of almost 300 pages, giving an overview of Eskom's performance up to June this year.

One of the keynote speakers at the recent Master Builders South Africa (MBSA) Congress in Johannesburg was Bobby Godsell, the current Chairperson of Eskom. Godsell was the Chief Executive Officer of AngloGold for nine years and held a number of very seni

The discussion accepted the fundamental premise that the industry experiences a large number of complaints around quality, time, cost and the scope of building projects. It was accepted that these issues would not go away and that all roleplayers in the

While most of us were enjoying competition in the sports or leisure fields over this last weekend in August 2009, President Zuma signed the Competition Amendment Bill into law.