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Business Law Focus

The Business Law Focus podcast series covers the latest and most important developments in business law and tax. Through exclusive interviews with leading experts in the field and the lawyers actually arguing the most important cases, these interviews cut through the noise to provide legal insights that matter for the C-suite, entrepreneurs and professionals.
Weekly English South Africa Business
49 Episodes
32 – 49

The future of mandatory Covid-19 vaccination

With vaccine rates remaining low in Africa and SA, the question of mandatory vaccines is high on the agenda early in 2022. In this edition of Business Law Focus, host Evan Pickworth discusses the sticky question of enforcement, risk assessments and policy hurdles companies seeking a mandatory vaccine policy must…
18 Jan 2022 22 min

Keep the taxman in mind when liquidating

In terms of the Statistical Release on liquidations and insolvencies published by Statistics South Africa in July 2021, there has been a 21.5% increase in the number of liquidations in the first seven months of 2021 compared to the first seven months of 2020. This has not deterred SARS from…
22 Sep 2021 14 min

The tug of war over VAT refunds

Claiming and determining the veracity of VAT refunds is a perennial headache for both SARS and the taxpayer. In this edition of Business Law Focus, host Evan Pickworth, interviews tax manager at ENSafrica, Annelie Giles, on the extent of the problem and what can be done to fix it.
16 Sep 2021 18 min

'Stablecoins' and the move to decentralised finance

Business Law Focus Editor Evan Pickworth speaks to Ashlin Perumall, Partner in the Corporate/MA Practice at Baker McKenzie in Johannesburg and fellow of the World Economic Forum's (WEF) Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution (C4IR). The readiness (or lack thereof) for the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) in Africa, a rising…
20 Aug 2021 11 min

What are the implications of the recently enacted Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Act?

In this episode of the Business Law Focus podcast, Editor Evan Pickworth interviews Janet MacKenzie and Darryl Bernstein, experts from global law firm Baker McKenzie, on the implications of the recently enacted Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity Act. The criminalisation of harmful data messages and the intersection between this Act and the…
2 Jul 2021 17 min

What does the future hold for SA's labour market?

With businesses and the economy caught in a whirlwind of strikes, protests, lock-outs and retrenchments - on top of trying to recover from Covid-19 losses - Business Day Law & Tax Editor Evan Pickworth interviews Audrey Johnson from ENSafrica’s employment department on what the future holds from a labour perspective.
7 Jun 2021 15 min

Shifting patterns in Africa’s infrastructure funding

Baker McKenzie’s latest report - New Dynamics: Shifting Patterns in Africa’s Infrastructure Funding - shows the state of the African infrastructure market, and how the major global players’ approach infrastructure lending on the continent is changing. The report’s data shows that multilateral and bilateral lending into Africa has declined -…
26 May 2021 9 min

The future of trade

In the latest edition of Business Law Focus, Editor Evan Pickworth interviews ENSafrica’s Executive: Africa Regulatory and Business Intelligence, Celia Becker on the future of trade in Africa. This follows the coming into force of the long-awaited African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement. The AfCFTA creates the largest free-trade…
12 May 2021 13 min

Spotlight on political party funding

In this edition of Business Law Focus, Editor Evan Pickworth unpacks the broad ramifications of the Political Party Funding Act with leading expert, Dario Milo from Webber Wentzel. The Act came into force on 1 April 2021 and contains several provisions compelling disclosure of contributions to political parties, but certain…
28 Apr 2021 22 min

Why a wealth tax may not be on the cards

In the next episode of Business Law Focus we delve into the potential for extensive tax increases in the upcoming Budget. Editor Evan Pickworth is joined by Director at AJM Tax, Dr Albertus Marais, to unpack what already over-burdened and over-stretched taxpayers can expect. Dr Marais explains that close to…
2 Feb 2021 13 min

Seeking Mining Tax Certainty

Welcome to the next episode of Business Law Focus, which digs deeper into what can be expected in next month’s Budget. Editor Evan Pickworth interviews Head of tax in the Johannesburg office of ENSafrica, Andries Myburgh, to get key insights on potential corporate and mining tax changes. According to Myburgh,…
2 Feb 2021 17 min

How to battle gender-based violence via the Disaster Management Act

Gender-based violence (GBV) is an ongoing ill bedevilling society and it needs to be rooted out as a priority. To do this, collective action and a firm commitment from broad stakeholders across society, government and the private sector is needed. In this Business Law Focus podcast, panelists Patrick Bracher, a…
25 Nov 2020 15 min

How the 'Internet Censorship' Act tramples constitutional rights

In this episode of Business Law Focus, Evan Pickworth asks Janet MacKenzie, a partner and head of the TMT industry group for the Johannesburg office of global law firm Baker McKenzie, why the changes are ripe for a constitutional challenge if passed in their current form. We discuss the next…
8 Oct 2020 19 min
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