Entrepreneurs are, by their very nature, more comfortable with risk than most people. It allows them to focus on growth without losing sleep over whether there is red tape around, how it affects them and how to navigate it. But businesses that move into the scaling phase, face, all of a sudden, a new set […]

Having been asked to write a piece on the history of Caveat, I’m struck by the thought that we’ve come far enough to even have a history. Caveat turns 8 this year. Time really has flown – probably because we really have been having fun. I never knew a job could be so much fun,

  With new technologies and Apps around every corner, it is no surprise that the products and service offerings in which consumers and businesses are interested, often involve the accessing of software.  As individual consumers we need to accept Terms and Conditions pertaining to the use of online purchasing sites, or the creation of a

The legal industry has stayed essentially the same for a few hundred years and young people entering the profession have, historically, had a fairly good sense of what a career in law would look like, the options facing them and the time expected to reach senior positions in following each option. More recently, we have

The legal profession has remained essentially the same for the last few centuries. One could be forgiven for thinking that, other than the introduction of fax and then email for communication purposes, the profession has shown little aptitude for adapting to changing times. Traditional practitioners and clients alike tend to believe that it will continue

So you stumble across a legal issue in the course of running your business. Your initial thought – that the issue is quite complex but interesting – is closely followed by your next thought – an ‘oh no, we’ll have to ask the lawyers’. There’s no hiding from the truth, engaging lawyers is usually a

The Department of Trade and Industry has introduced a Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Amendment Act, 2013 (‘the BEE Amendment Act’), which fundamentally amends the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment Act, 2003 (‘the Principal BEE Act’).  It has also introduced revised ‘generic’ BEE Codes of Good Practice (‘the Amended BEE Codes’), which amend and replace the ‘generic’

On 7 December 2011 the new Preferential Procurement Regulations, 2011 (‘the Regulations’) made under the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act, 2000 (‘the PPPFA’) came into effect. The Regulations have a broader scope of application than the 2001 Regulations: municipal entities, as well as schedule 2 and 3 public entities listed under the Public Finance Management