Posts tagged as lockdown

Lockdown highlighted critical challenges on the independence of the judiciary

x Bookmark By Kgomotso Ramotsho Chief Justice, Mogoeng Mogoeng, said the lockdown, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has highlighted several critical challenges, which impacted negatively on the independence of the […]

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Mental health and the workplace: The role of the employer

x Bookmark Mental health has been an issue that has been of concern for some time now, but since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic around the globe, attention to […]

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COVID-19 impacting the workplace: Outlining retrenchments in good faith

x Bookmark Since the start of the lockdown, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many business owners have been tasked with taking difficult decisions for survival. Financial strain is at the […]

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COVID-19: Force majeure and the effect it has on rental contracts

x Bookmark COVID-19 will have far-reaching ramifications for South Africa (SA). In order to ‘flatten the curve’, the President, Cyril Ramaphosa, duly advised by his cabinet, declared a total lockdown […]

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Legal questions brought by COVID-19

x Bookmark As South Africa moves to Level 3 of the COVID-19 Risk Adjusted Strategy, the country and indeed the legal profession has had to grapple with the new regulations […]

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Letters to the editor – June 2020

x Bookmark PO Box 36626, Menlo Park 0102 Docex 82, Pretoria E-mail: derebus@derebus.org.za Fax: (012) 362 0969 Letters are not published under noms de plume. However, letters from practising attorneys who make […]

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Practical tips for legal practitioners working from home

x Bookmark In his address to the nation on 23 March, President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that South Africa (SA) would be placed under lockdown in an attempt to stop the […]

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How will COVID-19 impact the buying and/or selling of property?

x Bookmark Following the announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa on 23 March of a 21-day nationwide lockdown and then the announcement of the extension of that lockdown due to the […]

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Should sex workers be classified as essential workers?

x Bookmark COVID-19, an infectious disease broke out in the Hubei province of China spreading across the globe. The spread of this ongoing pandemic has been rapid and consequently many […]

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Faith in the time of lockdown: A Constitutional right to freedom of religion

x Bookmark In terms of s 15(1) of the Constitution ‘[e]veryone has the right to freedom of conscience, religion, thought, belief and opinion’ and in s 31(1) it provides that […]

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