Daan’s Snippets – 11th April 2022
News:
Our Department of Justice has appointed a service provider to repair and maintain the court recording systems in courts: remarkable! This sort of neglect...
Daan’s Snippets – 22nd July 2024
News
RAF, our evergreen newsmaker:
The Pretoria High Court dismissed an application by the RAF to appeal the judgement that declared an RAF directive, that excluded...
Daan’s Snippets 13th of 2019
Gentle Reader, My name is Ozymandias. Look on my works ye mighty and despair! Nothing beside remains.
My patricidal sons, bent on expediting their hereditament,...
Daan’s Snippets July 2018/09
Economic review - It has been said that the state needs to nationalise the SA Reserve Bank. One of the arguments against nationalisation is that...
Daan’s Snippets – 16th of 2019
Economy
Stats SA reports that 44% of SA households receive at least one social grant, up from 30% 15 years ago. This somewhat depressing news...
Daan’s Snippets – 24 October 2024
Property
Trends:
· With inflation seemingly under control, the expectation is that more aggressive interest rate cuts will follow, which should stimulate our property market.
· The...
Daan’s Snippets 15th of 2019
Economy
Despite the exuberance that accompanied the swearing in of our latest Parliament, our economic outlook remains bleak: the OECD now estimates our growth forecast...
Daan’s Snippets – 20th April 2020
Economy - It’s the economy, stupid. A phrase coined by Carville and made famous by Clinton: a couple of weeks ago, the functioning of...
Daan’s Snippets 17th of 2019
Economy
Silver bullet economics: post-election economic debate has centred on job creation and the Reserve Bank. Calls are made by a variety of worthies for...
Daan’s Snippets – 16th August 2021
Gentle ReaderThis will be my last newsletter for a few weeks as I will shortly depart to go dirt-biking in Georgia (the country) with...
Daan’s Snippets – 20th of 2019
Economy
President Mnangagwa says that the re-introduction of the Zimbabwe dollar will be a “return to normalcy”. If one were a sceptic, normalcy means bankruptcy...
Daan’s Snippets – 15th August 2025
Practice News
Lawyers:The will of the late Judge Mokgoro was the subject of unpleasantness in the Kimberley High Court: one of the two wills available,...
