OVERSTAFFING is a significant challenge for businesses, mostly due to the fact that it results in a waste of resources. If your company has more employees than are required for a specific task, you have an overstaffed organisation. (more…)

THE Value Added Tax (VAT) laws provide for refund of excessive input tax i.e. input tax plus adjustments that exceed output tax, plus adjustments in any tax period as long as the claim is made within six years of the end of the relevant tax period. (more…)

WHEN parties enter into a contract, it is with the view that the contract be enforceable. They enter into a contract with the intention of performing and executing it. (more…)

SUSPENSION of duty is the waiver of customs duty and surtax. Value Added Tax (VAT) is payable at a rate of 14.5% based on the value of a motor vehicle plus freight, insurance and any other charges incurred before delivery of the vehicle to Zimbabwe. (more…)

There are a myriad reasons why one would want to change their name. In my experience, the most fundamental motivation to change a name is to either associate oneself with something or dissociate oneself from something. (more…)

  THE Opel brand has been kicked around like a football in the last decade or so and needs something a bit special to get itself back in the good books of South African car buyers who sadly didn’t take to more recent examples in the numbers some…

THERE comes a time when working individuals look beyond self-actualisation in their careers. After they have achieved a certain number of their personal goals, they begin to look beyond themselves and start to think about posterity. (more…)

THE interview method of employee selection is one of the most popular tools that most executives prefer. I would call this blind loyalty because most executives are unaware that the interview method is one of the worst employee selection tools available for various reasons. (more…)

WE often hear of players in the construction industry making reference to FIDIC contracts regulating their relationships with different parties in a project — how and when they get paid and how do their scope of work is defined. (more…)