BRAVE NEW WORLD: VIRTUAL BOARDROOMS IN CYBERSPACE
“O Wonder! .….O Brave New World” (Shakespeare) One of the innovations brought in by our “new” Companies Act is that company meetings may now be held via electronic communication, opening the door for companies to use cyber services such as email, online messaging, voice and video conferencing (easy with services like Skype, SightSpeed, iChat etc) […]
TENDER FRAUD – FIGHT BACK!
What are our courts doing about the scourge of tender fraud in South Africa? The sentence: 3 years’ prison It’s a hot topic yet again, and honest tenderers can take heart from the effective sentence of 3 years’ imprisonment recently imposed by the Supreme Court of Appeal on a man convicted of tender fraud relating […]
FACEBOOK, TWITTER: POST AND TWEET AT YOUR PERIL! AND BEWARE
“I wonder too what happened to the person who I counted as a best friend for 15 years, and how this behaviour is justified. Remember I see the broken hearted faces of your girls every day. Should we blame the alcohol, the drugs, the church, or are they more reasons to not have to take […]
SHOPPERS: A NEW OMBUD RIDES TO YOUR RESCUE!
The appliance you bought at your local store doesn’t work when you get it home, so – You take it back and demand a refund. The store refuses and insists on repairing or replacing it instead. You know enough about your rights in terms of the Consumer Protection Act to insist that you get to […]