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ECONOMIC REVIEW

Moody's has predicted a 2.5% GDP growth for South Africa next year. Bruggemans attributes this to what he terms "base

BUSINESS REVIEW

Value(d)less? Research reveals that women who run non-profit social enterprises pay themselves 23% less than men do. Why? One hypothesis suggests that female entrepreneurs prioritise autonomy over higher pay and end up happier in these jobs, relative to their alternatives, than do male entrepreneurs.

South African's Labour relations are the most hostile of the 144 countries measured by the WEF

PROPERTY REVIEW

John Loos is probably the best known property commentator in South Africa (and will be our keynote speaker at our next Business Bytes Live). He said, last week, that the upper income segment of our residential property market is currently the most upbeat (albeit by a small margin), up from the middle

PRACTICE REVIEW

Dikgang Moseneke says that our constitution gives the president too much power

CASES AND SUCH

Doctrine of peremption

"A party who acquiesces to a judgement cannot subsequently challenge that judgement."
Hartley [2014] ZAGPJHC 282

Settlement negotiations, prescription and acknowledgement of debt

If one enters into settlement negotiations

QUOTABLES

"Someone once likened the job of being a managing partner, to being the only fire hydrant in a town full of dogs."

"If everyone fought for the own convictions they would be no war." Tolstoy

WEIRD & WONDERFUL

Send an Amandla SMS to PMUT and help pay Zuma's debt to the nation (which he does not owe); PMUT is chaired by Mr V Mchunu who makes his living running a business called Dr Vum Vum Media

LIGHTEN UP

On the ravages of growing old: At my age, I still chase women; but only downhill.

When I was in the pub I heard a couple of plonkers saying that they wouldn't feel safe on an aircraft if they knew the pilot was a woman. What a beer of sexists. I mean, it's not as if she'd have to reverse the bl**dy thing!

Die boomerang is Australi