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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
40 – 49

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
40 – 49