Cape farmer Yvonne Oberholster's home was invaded yesterday morning by the sheriff of Somerset West and agents of KPMG Services, despite her application to the Constitutional Court for leave to appeal against her sequestration as she was under debt review at the time. Now she is suing the liquidators for R10 million.

Trade union Solidarity is bringing an urgent interdict application against Telkom to halt what is says is a race-based retrenchment drive that will prejudice minorities working for the company. Telkom has announced a retrenchment drive in an effort to save R5 billion in costs over five years.

Jonn Basson is a few days away from being tossed out of his small farm outside Pretoria, He will then likely end up sleeping in his car. He went from millionaire to zero in three easy steps. This is how it happened...

A recent judgment by the Supreme Court of Appeals sets out rules for a SARS audit. This is based on a case dating back more than a decade when SARS was found to have overreached itself in dealing with a taxpayer.

The list of catastrophic events confronting us seems to grow by the day. Bird flu, Islamic terrorists, Y2K, killer fruit juice. No-one seems to call the fear-mongers propagating these scare stories to account for their miserable track record in predicting the end times, according to Simon Jenkins in the Guardian.

The High Court in Johannesburg has rejected the claim by former Vodacom CEO Alan Knott-Craig that he was the inventor of the company's "Please Call Me" service. But the court also threw out - on technical grounds - a counter claim by former employee Nkosana Makate that he was the inventor.

Ian Brakspear won a crucial skirmish in the Durban High Court yesterday when the Judge President set down his case for August and offered to bring in a judge from outside the province. Brakspear claims he was liquidated on the basis of a forgery and a fictitious R7 million loan.

The Road Traffic Infringement Agency is being hauled before the court because it is alleged to have failed to follow the correct procedure in claiming road fines. Without receipt of a registered letter, the agency cannot enforce a fine, according to Fines 4U, which is bringing the action.

Rural Development and Land Reform Minister Gugile Nkwinti has published a plan for farmers to hand over half their farms to workers. The plan, which the minister says is an effort to "de-racialise" the land issue in SA, has been roundly slammed by agricultural groups.

The family of Ian Brakspear are filing a criminal complaint with the Hawks against one of the ENS attorneys accused of involvement in a fraudulent liquidation of the family business in 2008. Meanwhile, the Brakspear case is due to be heard before the Durban High Court in August.

The Constitutional Court has ruled in favour of a woman who was to be evicted from her property after falling behind on her payments. The Court ruled that in terms of the Alienation of Land Act, she was entitled to have the property transferred into her name as she had paid more than half the purchase price.

The SA Human Rights Commission is investigating the eviction of several hundred families from Lwandle in the Western Cape. The commission says it is concerned about the manner of the evictions and the delay in providing alternative shelter.

This is a sociopath's wet dream: US plans for a nuclear first strike on Russia and China. What's more, the US thinks it can down any retaliatory missiles and so survive retribution for raining death down on its perceived enemies in the East. Paul Craig Roberts spills the dirt...

This is the letter that business should write to President Zuma, but won't. Just as business deserted South Africa in the 1980s under apartheid, if the government doesn't get serious about lifting the country out of the mess it created, the same could happen again.

Immigration lawyers are challenging new immigration rules that make it virtually impossible to apply for certain categrories of visa. They says the rules are incomplete, resulting in officials turning away applicants.

The US government is living in a web of self-deception if it thinks that its waning global power has gone unnoticed in the East. Russia, China and Iran are formulating a new global order that will see the US and its allies increasingly isolated and economically marginalised, writes Seyed Mohammad Marandi in Al Jazeera.

India's new primine minister Narendra Modi achieved economic miracles while running the state of Gujarat. Now his has the entire country under his stewardship. He could teach our own Jacob Zuma a thing or two about turning around a sinking ship, writes Leon Louw of the Free Market Foundation. 

New amendments to the Labour Relations and Employment Equity Acts could have far-reaching and unintended consequences. Though intended to promote pay parity between temporary and permanent workers, they may end up achieving the exact opposite.

Johannesburg businessman Damon Greville defended himself in the South Gauteng High Court this week against Sasfin Bank, which liquidated his 67 year-old business in 2012 and is now attempting to repossess his house. The judge found "substantive evidence" that the bank's legal standing was in question after Greville presented evidence of securitisation and bogus accounting by the bank.

The latest election results show the Western Cape is all but lost to the ANC. But the ruling party came perilously close to losing Johannesburg and Tshwane. Now the game is on to wrest Gauteng - South Africa's economic heartland - from the ANC in the 2016 local elections.

Despite the fact that the Democratic Alliance got more than three quarters of a million black votes, the latest election results show that South Africans continue to vote along racial lines.

The revised Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BEEE) codes represent both a threat and an opportunity for companies. In this article, the first in a series, Jako Liebenberg and Arnold Cornelissen show how it is possible to improve your B-BEEE rating at minimal cost.

Trade union Solidarity says minorities in South Africa suffer unfair discrimination in employment. A case in point is the Western Cape, where coloureds are in the majority, yet they qualify for less than 10% of jobs due to the application of national demographic quotas, as was pointed out in a recent court case brought by Solidarity.   

For a disturbing insight into modern banking ethics, look no further than the case of Royal Bank of Scotland and its "business turnaround" division called Global Restructuring Group. South African banking customers would be well advised to pay attention to this case.

Are crime syndicates operating out of our courts? The Auction Alliance scandal appears to be just the tip of the iceberg. There is mounting evidence of corrupt syndicates operating out of our courts, bankrupting solvent businesses for personal financial gain, and undermining the judiciary and the Constitution.