‘Stop stealing our doctors’ is the heading to a news article published June 10, 2015 in the Citizen. In it, the director-general of the South African Department of Health claims, “The UK has been grabbing our health workers…[We are] signing a memorandum of understanding with the UK to get some
THE government is introducing a substantive search-and-examination process for patent applications to replace the depository system — it believes this will enable the granting of more robust patents.
Critics of the existing system say it encourages frivolous applications and allows weak patents to be issued. A move towards a substantive search-and-examination
ONE conclusion reached in the Davis Tax Committee’s first interim report on value-added tax (VAT) is that "(there is) clear evidence that multiple rates add significantly to the complexity and administrative burden of the tax (and thus) … the adoption of multiple rates is not recommended". Why then has the
Granting almost unlimited discretionary powers to the executive is a flagrant disregard of this principle, writes Eustace Davie. South Africa’s Constitution contains a unique founding provision, which entrenches the supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of law. The detailed constitutional provisions and rule of law principles are, together, intended to protect
