Trevor Belmont 🇿🇦

Major Law Firms Challenge B-BBEE Legal Sector Code in Gauteng High Court South Africa's leading law firms, including Deneys Reitz (formerly Norton Rose Fulbright), Bowmans, Webber Wentzel, and Werksmans, are before the Gauteng High Court this week challenging the Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment (B-BBEE) Legal Sector Code. The firms argue that the code, gazetted by Trade and Industry Minister Parks Tau in September 2024, is unlawful, unconstitutional, and impractical. Key objections include strict targets such as 50% black ownership within five years, 25% black representation in management, and specific briefing quotas for black advocates. Applicants contend these timelines do not align with how law firms operate, as equity is typically held by practising partners who require years of qualification and experience. They warn that rigid implementation could damage firms' B-BBEE ratings and access to government work, ultimately undermining broad-based transformation. Government respondents and the Legal Practice Council maintain the code is necessary to address persistent structural inequalities in the legal profession more than three decades after apartheid. The matter, formally Norton Rose & Others v Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition (Case No: 2024-149523), is being heard by a full bench of three judges. Proceedings are set to run for five days until Friday. The outcome could have significant implications for B-BBEE policy across other professional sectors. Public debate remains sharply divided, with critics viewing the challenge as resistance to meaningful change and supporters arguing the code's targets risk being counterproductive.

Corporate SA is a win/win situation. You fail they blame government, you win they praise you 😩 Kana Sasol lost 45bn investing in a nothing project in the USA😭

@Lindy_nzabe Not any SA hospital, eGoli!! Luphi ulwandle eGoli😣

This cruise ship was traveling from Argentina to Cape Verde but the person with hantavirus is taken to a South African hospital😭? Hayi siyalingwa🥴

Something worst than covid is coming Mark my words

Today, President @CyrilRamaphosa visited Zimbabwe and was photographed with Wicknell Chivayo, a man currently under investigation by South Africa's own FIC for allegedly laundering over R800 million in Zimbabwean public funds. South Africa's Financial Intelligence Centre found that over R1.1 billion from Zimbabwe's Ministry of Finance @ZimTreasury flowed into a South African printing company, with more than R800 million rapidly transferred into accounts belonging to Chivayo-linked companies. The Hawks, SARS and SAPS are all involved. A South African High Court has already frozen Chivayo's bank accounts at FNB, Absa and Standard Bank and grounded his private jet in a case brought by his estranged wife Louise Sonja Madzikanda. But it gets worse. Wicknell's younger brother, Joachim 'G6' Chivayo, was arrested in November 2024 by the Hawks' Serious Organised Crime Unit in Brakpan for possession of six gold bars worth approximately R15 million. He was granted bail of R20,000 with strict conditions; he could not leave Gauteng or South Africa. He then failed to appear in court, and a warrant of arrest was issued against him on March 11, 2025. He jumped the border and never came back. Joachim Chivayo was subsequently appointed ZANU-PF's deputy secretary for information and publicity in Harare province in September 2025, a fugitive from South African justice, rewarded with a political position. So here is the full picture: South Africa's FIC is actively investigating the elder Chivayo. South Africa's Hawks have an outstanding warrant for the younger Chivayo. A South African court has frozen the family's assets. And Ramaphosa flew to Zimbabwe and posed for photographs with the man at the centre of all of it. What does this say about South Africa's rule of law? When a sitting president shares a frame with someone his own country's financial intelligence unit is investigating for money laundering and whose fugitive brother is sheltered by the very government hosting that visit, the message sent to criminals everywhere is clear: connections trump consequences. You genuinely cannot make this up. 🇿🇦🇿🇼 @Leon_Schreib @Sophie_Mokoena

Long before China returned as a great power, long before the Iranian revolution, before North Korea was born, before any modern armed resistance group existed in Apartheid South Africa, Algeria or Latin America, or Palestine, Russia stood basically alone against the all the Nazis, imperialists, and racists of the world. They deserve to feel immense pride

[BREAKING NEWS] Fuel prices will increase on 6 May. Diesel will go up by R6.19 per litre, while petrol will increase by R3.27 per litre. #Newzroom405

i think i’ve seen this film before. and i didn’t like the ending.

These Europeans are trying to kill us ...

The f*ck ....?

Leonardo DiCaprio has been suggesting this 😂

Wait?? That was the fastest split in HISTORY 😭 previously held Michael Johnson who did 42.94 seconds in 1993! Lythe Pillay!! 🇿🇦❤️

Donald Trump named Candace Owens the most vile person of the year. Not someone from the Epstein Files. Not someone starting unnecessary wars killing innocent people. Not someone who rapes and kills. Just someone who questions the narrative they push. Makes you wonder.

Or just lower the interest rate for said demographic… 🫠 But that would be an actual benefit lol…

Speaking on behalf of ALL MEN we are SO relieved to hear you say that. We look forward to you taking over: All military campaigns and combat Brickmasonry Plumbing Electrical Carpentry Construction Roofing Foundries and Ironwork Logging Mining Power line installation and maintenance Firefighting Truck Driving Garbage Collection Honestly, thank you so much for stepping up on this ladies and volunteering to give these hard working men a break.

Apartheid was a crime against humanity

We can’t decolonize our minds if we refuse to read. Some will argue for hours… but won’t open a single book about their own history. “The knowledge isn’t hidden. The effort is missing.” —John Henrik Clarke

That’s how dumb they think you are.

Yall be outside every weekend at the same places , getting drunk to the same 5 songs😭😭😭😭😭😭