City Capital SA Property Holdings Limited v Chavonnes Badenhorst St Clair Cooper NO and Others 2018 (4) SA 71 (SCA)

BACKGROUND The matter arises from a property syndication scheme conducted by the Dividend InvestmentcGroup, which consisted of Div-Vest Holdings (Pty) Ltd and its two wholly-owned subsidiaries.A property syndication is an investment scheme that facilitates the sale of a property, or a number of properties, to a group of investors who become, directly or indirectly, part
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A PEEK INTO THE USE OF ALGORITHMIC TRADING AND IT’S INTERACTION WITH THE SOUTH AFRICA LEGISLATURE.

High Frequency Trading (“HFT”). Firstly, what is it? HFT is as far as possible from your archetypal perception of Wall Street traders bellowing profanity over the phone as they execute trades. HFT is a subset of algorithmic trading, which essentially makes use of complex algorithms which collect and dissect a plethora of financial data and
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Lewarne v Fochem International (Pty) Ltd (1073/18) [2019] ZASCA 114

BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY Shane Symons and Johanna Symons (“the Plaintiffs”) are the trustees of the Symon Family Trust (“the Trust”), who sought to claim damages against the Rob Roy Investments CC t/a Assetsure (“the Defendant”), the Plaintiffs former financial adviser and investment broker. The Plaintiffs’ claim is based on the premise that the Trust, acting
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Van der Bijl and Another v Featherbrooke Estate Home Owners’ Association (NPC) 2019 (1) SA 642 (GJ)

BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY The Plaintiffs in the matter, Mr. and Mrs. van der Bijl, brought an action for damages against the Defendants, Featherbrooke Estate Home Owners’ Association NPC (“the Association”) and Fidelity Security Services (Pty) Ltd (“Fidelity”), the security company employed by the Association to safeguard and protect the estate and its residents.   The
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NK v KM 2019 (3) SA 571 (GJ)

SUMMARY The applicant in this matter, “NK”, applied to the court in terms of rule 33(4) of the Uniform Rules of the High Court (“the Rules”) for a separation of issues in the divorce proceedings between him and his wife, “KM”. The parties sought an order to have their marriage dissolved. KM opposed the claim
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Commentary on the Immigration Amendment Bill

Introduction Foreigners who stay longer than their visa allows face much harsher sanctions under a new immigration law, which lawyers say is punitive and unconstitutional. The Immigration Amendment Bill (the “Bill”) was published in Government Gazette No. 39501 of 11 December 2015, in order to amend the Immigration Act 13 of 2002 (“the Act”). This
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