In the recent Supreme Court of Appeal case of Brink v Humphries & Jewell (Pty) Ltd 2005 (2) SA 419 (SCA) the defence raised by the surety was one of mistake – iustus error- in that he argued that he was unaware that the credit application which he signed incorporated a suretyship. This defence was successfully upheld by the court.

The much discussed National Credit Bill has come before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Trade and Industry. A report on this appears in in Personal Finance.
In addition the latest version of the bill that is available on the web appears to be that on the Parliamentary Monitoring Group website which is interestingly qualified with the words final version awaited.
We will keep you posted on developments with the bill and hopefully get some certainty on the final version before we take a general look at the bill again.

“Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.”
William Penn
There are volumes of books that have been written on ?time management? for business executives. Today more and more time is at a premium in our workday. Yet, as with most things in life, effective use of it comes back to self-management and how we manage ourselves and what happens around us.