Carla Van Veenendaal

Indeed – I suggest you submit a complaint to the Public Protector, as public money and a state entity were involved.  Was it a national tender or a regional tender?  I might be able to assist you in this regard. 

Hi, please differentiate between intellectual property rights and company name.  Tw separate Acts apply and two different parts of the DTI are involved.  You may need to take this up with both of these sections. 

ITO the Companies Act, you reserve a name for the company which may not be copied.  See sections 11 and 12 of the Companies Act.  CIPC…[Read more]

Hannes, how long have those rumours been going around?  And what is being put in place?  In order to change the system away from SETAs, I suspect that the legislation has to be changed in order to put a new system in place?  Or, miracle of miracles, are the SETAs going to disappear and private providers can simply exist unfettered in the vacuum th…[Read more]

I suspect there is a file 13, no a hole 13, one of the no longer used mine shafts in the south of JHB where these files go to.  They are like socks in the washing.  Problem is, these socks eventually cost money – whether in lost income, or in having to reproduce the file, which is also an environmental issue because of the mountains of paper t…[Read more]

Problem is the inability to generally keep track of files in most of the Setas and even at the DHET itself.  One would have thought that by now they would have developed some kind of tracking system, or a dashboard of sorts and made it applicable to all the SETAS and everywhere where applications go to, to keep track of the files.  It is too e…[Read more]

And yet I have been to accredited institutions where the books are sparse.  The mind boggles. 
In an aside: I am puzzled by the UP’s need to do a databank of all the legislation when over the years Butterworths (now lexisnexis) had printed all the legislation and it should be available at public libraries.  Similarly, both the larger printing ho…[Read more]

Thank you, Hannes.  I think it needs to be made clear that my only beef currently is with the putting in place of bodies, instead of determining minimum qualifications that the body must have.  Ie, for teaching welding, certain minimum requirements should be put in place, instead of saying, we have John Doe, who has an id no and a family and by t…[Read more]

Gavin, I agree up to a point.  Unfortunately some people still suffer under the illusion that if attending meetings, they are working.  Which is not true – when one spends time in a meeting, you need to go back to the office and put in an equal amount of time in clearing one’s desk.  However, sometimes it is indeed necessary to face someone in a…[Read more]

This also has an impact on the company, if it is a company, in that all the issues mentioned also impact the overall management of the company and, oh dreaded word, “Risk Management”.

These are my personal views and not necessarily those of APPETD or its legal advisory committee:  I am in agreement with Sylvia’s reading of this and trust that this has already been brought to BUSA’s attention.  This is not merely an exercise in changing names, but once again a re-drawing of the playing field and shifting of the goal-posts.  I am…[Read more]

I had a quick look again at the Joint Communique – it is clear from the outset, conclusion and general tenor of the document that it is only intended as an interim solution.  Should there be any challenge to the document, the respondents’ first reaction would be that it is not intended as a final solution.  (The fact that it took so very long to c…[Read more]

Good morning!
Yes, the CEO of APPETD is indeed very competent, but extremely busy.  A number of committees were launched in the middle of this year to ease the task of the CEO and to advise and assist in whichever way we can. We believe that this is an enhancement to membership of APPETD.  People will always complain about membership fees – p…[Read more]

As Chair of the Legal Advisory Committee of APPETD I have been following up on the issuing of this letter, as a number of our members have been threatened with closure and prosecution due to non-compliance.  I again discussed this matter this morning with our CEO, Cynthia Reynders.  She confirmed that the letter has been signed by all the p…[Read more]