We offer a wide range of legal services, ensuring that our team-based approach delivers innovative, practical and cost-effective solutions to our clients. With offices in Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Pietermaritzburg and Richards Bay, we offer accessible and complete legal services to a diverse client base. Local and international affiliations further extend our representation throughout Southern Africa, Europe and North America.
Our leadership team comprised of Sifiso Msomi, Chairperson of the Board, and Joint Managing Partners, Samantha Davidson and Anton Lockem, underscores the firm’s depth of expertise and clear vision for the future while reinforcing a continued commitment to excellence, transformation and diversity within the legal profession.
South Africa is proud of its Constitution, which protects people’s rights and limits what the government can do. There are legal rules meant to support fairness, such as estoppel and legitimate expectation. However, these rules can sometimes put ordinary people at risk without them realising it. Because of this, people should be careful about trusting what government officials say unless they first get legal advice.
Section 13A of the Pension Funds Act No. 24 of 1956 (“PFA”) requires an employer of any member of a fund to make payment to the fund in full of any contribution, which in terms of the rules of the fund, is to be deducted from the member’s remuneration, and contribution for which the employer is liable in terms of the fund rules.
Case law often teaches more than legal principles—it reveals how litigation strategy, discipline, and judgment shape outcomes. Part A of Taxpayer EV v SARS is a striking example. Whilst the dispute concerned a seemingly minor procedural condonation in a tax dispute - a one-day late filing, the Court’s refusal highlights deeper lessons for all legal practitioners.
A recent Tax Court judgment highlights a growing tension in South African tax disputes: when SARS selects a ‘test case’ to resolve issues affecting hundreds of taxpayers, how much control do those taxpayers retain over their own appeals?
Legal LPrim AA 2026 03 Taxation Laws Amendment Act 5 of 2026 GG 54448 1 April 2026
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