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Month: December 2020

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Court ruling: you can’t dodge a debt by converting a CC to a company

December 11, 2020 Ciaran Ryan 0

The debt will follow you, according to the Supreme Court. From Moneyweb. Converting a close corporation (CC) to a company might seem like a clever […]

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How to exit the financial matrix using cryptos

December 11, 2020 Ciaran Ryan 0

AltCoinTrader CEO and founder Richard de Sousa on a new way to get out of debt and transact, but in the crypto sphere. From Moneyweb […]

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Why bitcoin’s 2020 surge is different from 2017

December 8, 2020 Ciaran Ryan 0

Institutional backers have now jumped on board in numbers. From Moneyweb. It was the year of the bitcoin bubble, 2017. Over the following year it […]

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Nedbank blown in high court appeal involving Cape Town Fish Market

December 8, 2020 Ciaran Ryan 0

There was much argument as to the meaning of the word ‘towards’, as Nedbank attempted to claim more than the amount agreed with and paid […]

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A potentially disastrous change in voting methods averted in SA

December 4, 2020 Ciaran Ryan 0

Thanks largely to a robust campaign by participative democracy group DearSA, the government has decided to ditch two clauses in the Electoral Laws Amendment Bill […]

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Crypto pioneer buys a R600k house with crypto and it ends up costing R200k

December 4, 2020 Ciaran Ryan 0

Using a smart contract, with no ID, email or customer information required. From Moneyweb. Richard de Sousa founded crypto exchange AltCoin Trader in 2015 and […]

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VBS Bank liquidators take a scalp in the form of Firmanox

December 3, 2020 Ciaran Ryan 0

Firmanox’s ‘far-fetched’ story to dodge R24m owed to the bank didn’t pass muster with the court. From Moneyweb. The untangling of the mess around VBS […]

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