30 Jul Your website of the month: science and your daily routine
We lead increasingly hectic lives, and in the business world in particular we desperately need to find efficient and effective ways to maximise our health....
July 2018
30 Jul Suing an insolvent debtor – can you recover from his trust?
Your debtor owes you a fortune, but when his estate is sequestrated there is nothing in his own name. However you find out that he is trustee of a wealthy family trust with lots of assets that you think are really his - can you recover from his trust?...
30 Jul Depressed and dismissed – a hard lesson for a hard employer
A recent Labour Court decision shows how dangerous it is as an employer, when attempting to dismiss an employee, not to draw a clear distinction between misconduct and incapacity....
30 Jul Changing your surname – your choices on marriage, divorce and widowhood
You cannot lawfully use any surname in South Africa other than the one shown in the National Population Register (NPR), and trying to do so will land you in a lot of hassle and probably in legal trouble as well....
30 Jul How to escape from a property suretyship
"Suretyship is the precursor of ruin". As the philosopher and mathematician Thales pointed out two and a half millennia ago, signing surety for another’s debts carries huge risk....