Company registration, director duties, business rescue, contracts and commercial law for South African businesses — guides from Onah Attorneys.
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. Company registration protects nothing but the CIPC register; the brand — the name customers know — is only yours when…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. They didn’t deliver, didn’t pay, didn’t finish — a breached contract puts three weapons in your hand: force performance, cancel,…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. POPIA panic sells expensive audits; POPIA itself asks something more manageable: process personal information lawfully, secure it reasonably, and respect…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. No new CCs since 2011 — but hundreds of thousands still trade, and their members face the same question at…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. A company that cannot pay its debts has two legal roads: business rescue — a court-sanctioned turnaround under a practitioner…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. Directors fall out — over money, effort, strategy or trust. The Companies Act provides a guaranteed removal mechanism: shareholders can…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. Registering a company at CIPC takes days and costs little — which is exactly why thousands are registered wrong: default…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. The Companies Act 71 of 2008 rewrote South African corporate life — codified director duties, personal liability, business rescue, and…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. Civil law is where ordinary life meets the courtroom — broken contracts, unpaid debts, damaged property, defamation, neighbour wars. Unlike…
By Onah Attorneys Inc • Updated July 2026 • Legal information, not a substitute for advice on your specific matter. Most businesses meet their attorney for the first time in a crisis — a summons, a CCMA notice, a client…
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