Articles

Selling unclaimed property in storage is illegal.  Vendors must go through the correct legal channels to get rid of unclaimed property and claim storage costs.

You stop at the car dealership on your way home from work. The sales person greets you by name, you've been here many times before...

Phrases such as Black-Listing, credit profile and Credit Bureaux are known to us but it would appear that very few people know how these concepts affect our day to day lives...

As any RMI member who has had the misfortune of becoming caught up in legal action will tell you, the legal costs involved with litigation have become so expensive that enforcing our rights almost becomes impossible...

The best known form of a Company is a Private Company, having share capital and the most important characteristic is that the risk attaching to those who have contributed to the share capital, does not extend further than the amount which they paid for their shares...

Businessmen seldom profit from legal intervention, as it is mostly aimed at enforcing a right you already have or collecting money you are already owed...

In the last issue, we gave consideration to the sole proprietorship and the partnership as forms as business enterprise available to RMI members. In this issue, attention will be given to close corporations...

In this uniquely South African Business Environment, small to medium Enterprises have more readily embraced the new frontier of Electronic Interaction, from simple computerisation of smaller tasks within in the business, e-mail and sms communication with clientele, to the development and the design of a company website...

In last month’s issue we gave a brief overview related to a business website which could cause loss, liability and risk for a company and its managers or directors if not managed correctly...

This is the third article in a serious on Credit and how the Credit Bureau and the National Credit Act (the NCA) has changed the way we transact our credit lives. In this issue we consider the influence of the NCA and our business and ask the question "Is my business providing credit?"...