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Africa Business In Brief

issue 466 | 18 Sep 2022

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INSTAWORTHY DATA PROTECTION FINE

13 Sep 2022
BY Era Gunning

The Instagram fine is the second-highest fine under the GDPR after a EUR746 million penalty against the e-commerce giant Amazon
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SA’s one size fits all approach to crypto risk management inadequate to combat terrorism

13 Sep 2022
BY Angela Itzikowitz AND Aslam Moosajee

Academics and journalists who are arrested for being in possession of terrorist-related content, may raise as a defence that the possession was for carrying out the work as a journalist or for research purposes.
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Can a civil action be dismissed for an inordinate delay in prosecuting the matter?

13 Sep 2022
BY Aslam Moosajee AND Vishana Mangalparsad

An inordinate or unreasonable delay in prosecuting an action may constitute an abuse of process, which in turn may prejudice the administration of justice.
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tax in brief

13 Sep 2022

Below, please find issue 91 of ENSafrica’s tax in brief, a snapshot of the latest tax developments in South Africa.
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Africa Business In Brief

issue 465 | 11 Sep 2022

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Tax Indaba Roundup

07 Sep 2022

Following the robust discussions that took place at the Tax Indaba 2022, see more ENSights on all things tax here:
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Chinese lessons (in IP)

06 Sep 2022
BY Ilse du Plessis

Manolo Blahnik is certainly not the only company that was stopped by bad-faith trade mark faith applications in China: other companies that experienced this include New Balance, Jordan, Dunhill and Dries Van Noten.
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The world of giants and fairies – Zara vs House of Zana

06 Sep 2022
BY Manisha Bugwandeen-Doorasamy

The hearing officer made a number of observations: the goods in issue are identical, the average consumer of clothing is the public at large, clothing is a regular purchase, and the trade mark ZARA has a reputation.
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Copyright: a miscellany

06 Sep 2022
BY Jeremy de Beer

In most countries there’s no need to register copyright, in fact there’s often no provision for registration. Unlike other forms of intellectual property which are restricted to certain territories, copyright is international.
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Colour trade marks: another purple patch?

06 Sep 2022
BY Gaelyn Scott

In the South African Trade Marks Act, the definition of the word “mark” makes specific reference to colour. So, a colour or a combination of colours can be registered as a trade mark – you’d surely expect nothing less in the rainbow nation
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ENSafrica IP receives: “African IP Team of the Year” Award at the 2022 African Legal Awards and “South African Firm of the Year for IP Transactions and Advisory” 2022 from Managing IP

06 Sep 2022

The award was in recognition of our role as advisers in a transaction that saw two of South Africa’s leading financial service providers merge their investment management businesses
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Key Highlights of the Finance Act, 2022

06 Sep 2022
BY George Muthee AND Makena Gachau

The Act introduces material changes to the tax regime in Kenya and is largely aimed at enhancing revenue collection, promoting investments and bringing alignment to the current tax laws.
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Africa Business In Brief

issue 464 | 04 Sep 2022

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Government publishes draft Block Exemption Regulations for Small, Micro and Medium-Sized Businesses, 2022.

01 Sep 2022

The public has been given a period of 30 days from this date to make written submissions to the Acting Director-General on these new regulations
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