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ECONOMIC REVIEW

The ANC has decided that a part of Eskom must be sold to raise funds to keep the lights on. They speak of

BUSINESS REVIEW

More on electricity: De Lille asks companies not to go off the grid as the municipalities need the money generated by the sale of electricity to fund subsidised services. Great argument! Just what every businessman will want to hear.

Even more:

PROPERTY REVIEW

An interesting snippet ex our fellow Brics country Brazil, is that Brazil is opening up of the purchase of agricultural land in that country in order to fund expansion. The term is

CASES & SUCH

Compensation for personal damages

It is often difficult to quantify, in monetary terms, a loss suffered by a person. In this case a farmer was injured whilst in police custody. The quantum of his damages was set at the cost of hiring additional labour to do the tasks that he could no longer do as a result of those injuries.
Terblanche [2015]

QUOTABLES

Emigrants are cowards. Mandela

History is a lie agreed upon. Napoleon Bonaparte

WEIRD & WONDERFUL

One must have sympathy with Allister Sparks on his being compelled to apologise for calling Verwoerd smart. The ridiculousness of not being able to allude to the personal positives of a politically disgraced person behoves of little argument. Does this mean that one cannot call into question Mandela

LIGHTEN UP