Thursday, 31 March 2016

ZUMA YOU MUST GO NOW - BE A MAN OF HONOUR AND RESIGN

ZUMA dealt a blow by the Constitutional Court!!! Constitutional Court in session Zuma must go now - he failed to uphold the Constitution. The National Assembly protected this man and failed therefor to uphold the Constitution. What a disgrace is the man - not the Presidency. What a disgrace is the National Assembly in all its shameful glory. You can read the full judgment of the CC by clicking here. The Con Court delivered...

Friday, 25 March 2016

POWER OF ATTORNEY with an example

FROM MY LEGAL LIBRARY POWER OF ATTORNEY What is a power of attorney? [pa] In short it is when you give someone else the authority to do something on your behalf. EXAMPLE ONE: You can give someone the authority to do one specific thing for instance: to buy on your behalf a specific motor vehicle for a specific price and not more. Once your agent bought that specific motor vehicle at that specific price, the power of attorney lapses...

Wednesday, 23 March 2016

STATE CAPTURE: SOUTH AFRICA

This a concept that is floating around in our beautiful country as if it is an everyday point of discussion. This concept is brandied about as if every Tom, Dick and Harry knows the full import thereof.   Wikipedia gives it this definition: “State capture is a type of systemic political corruption in which private interests significantly influence a state's decision-making processes to their own advantage through unobvious channels,...

Even the busiest entrepreneur can manage to read like Bill Gates or Warren Buffett.

1. Buy books in advance. When trying to form a new habit, it pays to remove any obstacle that could get in the way of you keeping to your new routine, no matter how trivial. So those looking to start taking their vitamins might move the bottle to eye level, or new runners might invest in better sneakers. For would-be readers, this principle dictates you don't wait to finish one book to buy another. You should always have books lying around and easy to grab. "If you have more books in your house, you'll have more choices, and this...

ZUMA IS A DISHOUNABLE MAN ACCORDING TO MAIMANE

Jacob Zuma in the real world. I will write something later about this man called Jacob Zuma and who is the present incumbent of the Presidency of the Republic of South Africa. These were very harsh words meted out to our Honourable President Jacob Zuma while he sat in Parliament by parliamentary leader of the DA on Tuesday 17 February 2015. Maimane respects the office of the president but he told Zuma in his face that he [Zuma] is not...

Monday, 14 September 2015

A Story of an African Farm & Acquisitive Prescription

Deep in the heart of Mpumalanga Province there is an African farm with the beautiful name of Kaalbooi. This farm, Kaalbooi, is now inextricably linked to acquisitive prescription and it started with the first sub-divisional transfer during 1936 some 79 years ago. How did it all come about? Client asked me to draft his will which, according to him, should be very simple and straightforward: His two sons should inherit his house and Kaalbooi in equal shares. I informed him that the inheritance of his house in a residential area is fine,...

Thursday, 28 May 2015

THE LAUGHING PRESIDENT!

An advocate that at least showed some shame  for what he did. It is a shame that President Zuma behaved like he did in Parliament - it is an obvious sign that the poor man does not grasp the seriousness of the situation or his role in it. This is the link to the clown in parliament https://youtu.be/aDJ353jLOyY I suggest to you that we are expecting far too much from Zuma. It is shameful behavior of a President If you consider the...