For approximately 14 years, a company relied on a black shareholder to meet its B-BBEE requirements and secure work in the mining sector. When it sought to improve its B-BBEE score, it attempted to replace him with a black woman, whom it believed would better satisfy...
Once a principal agent, engineer, or project manager signs off a contractor’s payment application, the employer is on the hook. The signed certificate stops being a request for payment that either side can still negotiate. Our courts treat it as a liquid...
In June 2026, the Department of Trade, Industry, and Competition published South Africa’s new Industrial Development Strategy. It names affordable, reliable electricity as the biggest and most urgent enabler for industrial development. Yet its headline mining...
Pay now, argue later: The two narrow doors out of an adjudicator’s decision If an adjudicator of a construction dispute issues a determination in your favour, the other side must pay you now and argue about it later. If you lose, you must do the same....
You did not sign the contract. You can still be bound to its arbitration clause. An employer on a Camps Bay building project paid 14 of the 15 payment certificates issued to its contractor. When the relationship broke down, and the final certificate went...
