When I learnt about the death of the former National Party's cabinet minister Barend Jacobus du Plessis, I could not help it but recall my experience with the man or should I say his finance ministry office.
During their central bargaining forum on Thursday, Eskom reached an agreement with trade unions the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) and Solidarity.
It can take up to 10 years for a court to declare that a person is fully rehabilitated from insolvency. Insolvency is when a person’s income is far less than the debt they owe to their creditors and in most cases indebted consumers will approach the court to declare insolvency in order to be protected from the people they owe.