Category: Obiter

–Nick Altini | Leana Engelbrecht | Sandhya Foster | Lauren Paxton, Competition, Regulation and Trade Practice, Herbert Smith Freehills, Johannesburg It is clear that the COVID-19 pandemic is already having a far-reaching impact on local, regional and global economies, with many firms facing severe financial…

–Johan Botes | Partner, Head of Employment & Compensation, Baker McKenzie Johannesburg It is difficult to lift one’s gaze from the immediate, dramatic impact that COVID-19 has on our working lives and look towards the horizon to see what lies ahead. Looking around corners does…

Lerisha Naidu | Partner | Ryan McKerrow, Associate, Competition & Antitrust Practice, Baker McKenzie, Johannesburg A Virtual Approach to Competition Law The Competition Commission in South Africa is renowned as one of the most active regulators on the continent. Accordingly, competition law compliance is essential…

–Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban “With respect to CovidOrganics, Madagascar is with his African brothers to heal and save lives. Our duty is to preserve the health of our people. “Chad sent a plane to collect CVO donations. Thanks to President Idriss Deby Itno for his…

-The Straits Times | Reuters Africa can still contain the outbreak of the Covid-19 respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus, a senior World Health Organisation official said on Friday (April 17). “I believe that African countries can achieve a lot more than maybe people…

-Femi Adesina Let’s tell the story of Venezuela, because it bears striking similitude with that of Nigeria. Just like us, Venezuela is rich in oil, very rich. At a time, the county’s problem was not money, but how to spend it. Just like Nigeria. And…

–Independent Uk ‘Biafra is a dream that haunts me – it was a dream that was on the cusp of being realised and yet failed so painfully,’ recalls Ije Ajibade, telling the story of injustice that has shaped her life. My earliest memories of Biafra…

-Tina Blazquez-Lopez | Counsel | Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has arrived in Africa and it will need an African response if it is to be successfully managed.  In early March there were few reported cases on the continent.  As of…

-Vital Strategies | Africa Analyst  Real-time data from 20 African countries drive prevention guidelines to save lives Using Data to Find a Balance, developed by Africa CDC, the WHO, Ipsos, Vital Strategies’ Resolve to Save Lives initiative, the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team, Novetta…

-Sanjib Chaudhary Two-headed snakes are born because of a disorder called dicephaly. Dicephaly, the condition that causes a snake to be born with two heads, is already very rare. But when villagers from the Nawalpur District of central Nepal captured a two-headed banded kukri snake…