Despite the adoption of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health in 2001, which unequivocally affirmed WTO members’ rights to use compulsory licences and other TRIPS flexibilities to access medicines, ...

The Companies Act 71 of 2008 (“the Companies Act”) introduced a provision into South African law that for the first time permits the board of directors to remove another director from office. This provision is contained ...

The effective management of a strike is generally a challenging phenomenon which impacts on employers, employees and the general public. The main purpose of this study was to analyse the legal implications of employees’ ...

This article analyses the offences comprising disclosure-based market manipulation in South Africa under the Securities Services Act 36 of 2004. Disclosure-based market manipulation entails the dissemination of inaccurate ...

There has been a progressive shift in shareholder activism in South Africa as shareholder demands for greater levels of accountability, reasonable executive remuneration and disclosure and transparency are increasing. ...

Section 58(1) of the Companies Act 71 of 2008 gives a shareholder the right to appoint a proxy "at any time" for the purpose of participating in, speaking and voting on behalf of that shareholder at a shareholders′ meeting, ...

The right to education is entrenched in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996. The Constitution, together with various policy documents, provides guiding principles for the transformation of higher education ...

The Constitution of South Africa, 1996 with its Bill of Rights in general, and section 28 in particular, gives special protection to the rights of children. The Bill of Rights recognises children as a vulnerable group in ...

The thesis analyses selected aspects of domain-name law, mainly from the perspective of trade-mark law. It discusses the evolution of the domain-name system and how it operates as background to a more detailed discussion ...

The South African Companies Act 61 of 1973 has partially abandoned the capital maintenance concept by repealing the statutory procedure for a reduction of share capital, by permitting dividends to be paid out of capital ...