South Africa: Coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown | do tenants have an obligation to pay rent?
27 Mar 2020
BY Philip Geromont
The question arises as to whether the business owners (being tenants), must continue to pay rent to their respective landlords during the lockdown period.
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ENSafrica remains at your service during Coronavirus | COVID-19 times
27 Mar 2020
BY Michael Katz AND Mzi Mgudlwa
ENSafrica remains at your service during Coronavirus | COVID-19 times
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Uganda: Ministry of Health issues statutory instruments to combat Coronavirus (COVID-19)
26 Mar 2020
BY Phillip Karugaba AND Tracy Kakongi
The Minister of Health has invoked powers under the Public Health Act, (Cap. 281) to issue rules and orders aimed at combating COVID-19.
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Uganda and Kenya: Coronavirus (COVID-19) emergency tax measures
26 Mar 2020
BY Celia Becker
Over the last two days, Uganda and Kenya have both announced emergency tax measures to deal with the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak.
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South Africa: employers and trade unions working together to give employees some respite during the national lockdown
26 Mar 2020
BY Pareen Rogers
There has been great concern among employees, particularly those that earn hourly and weekly wages, regarding whether they will be able to sustain themselves and their families during the lockdown period.
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South Africa: Coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown essential services | technology, media and telecommunications
26 Mar 2020
BY Ridwaan Boda AND Wilmari Strachan
The Regulations published in terms of the impending coronavirus lockdown are far from clear and explicit when it comes to ICT, including datacentres, fibre optic infrastructure, towers and antennae.
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South Africa: Coronavirus | electronic signatures and electronic meetings
26 Mar 2020
BY Ridwaan Boda AND Lucinda Botes
Two common legal issues that arise from remote working are: the electronic signing of agreements and instructions; and whether meetings can take place using technological means.
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South Africa: national disaster declaration – now what?
26 Mar 2020
BY Pippa Reyburn
Numerous additional regulatory instruments to give effect to the lockdown and to regulate its consequences have been and will continue to be issued from day to day as SA navigates its way through and ultimately beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.
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South Africa: what does the lockdown mean for current litigation matters?
26 Mar 2020
In terms of the lockdown, everyone is to be confined to their homes for 21 days, save for certain workers involved in providing essential services. But what does all of this mean for current litigation?
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South Africa: update | are remote businesses still allowed to operate during the lockdown?
26 Mar 2020
BY Johan Loubser
Allowing remote businesses to operate would mitigate the adverse economic effect of the current disaster, which must be an objective of disaster management.
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South Africa: final regulations for coronavirus (COVID-19) lockdown published
25 Mar 2020
The regulations published on 18 March 2020 in terms of the Disaster Management Act, 2002 have been amended to regulate the lockdown announced by President Ramaphosa on 23 March 2020.
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A dismissal dressed as a breach of contract is still a dismissal: a warning to employers
24 Mar 2020
In terms of ordinary contract principles, if an employee commits an act of serious misconduct, this constitutes a breach of contract.
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South Africa: pandemic puts the right to strike on a collision course with right to life
24 Mar 2020
BY Joe Mothibi
Striking in the times of the Corona virus
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South Africa: can employees, who are infected with COVID-19, be compensated in terms of COIDA?
24 Mar 2020
BY Willem le Roux , Pieter Colyn AND Celeste Coles
The South African Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act, 1993 ("COIDA") addresses compensation payable to employees, who suffer from occupational diseases, which has arisen out of, and in the course of their employment.
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South Africa: competition exemptions for banking and retail property sectors to support the Coronavirus fallout
24 Mar 2020
On 23 and 24 March 2020, the Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition published Regulations under section 78(1) of the Competition Act, 1998 exempting the banking and retail property sectors from certain provisions of the Competition Act.
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