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- S1 · E00Founder Interview — Institutional Memory, Accountability & LegacyThe opening conversation of OUBAS TV: the founder on why the Institute exists, what institutional memory means in practice, and how accountability and legacy are built from records.Video1 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E01Can You Trust Your Bank Statement?What a bank statement is, what it should contain, and why verifying financial records is the first step in financial literacy.Video2 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E02Can Interest Grow Forever?The statutory in duplum rule in section 103(5) of the National Credit Act and the limits it places on interest and regulated charges.Video3 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E03When Does a Debt Stop Growing?How a certificate of balance is built, what supporting records should accompany it, and how to test the arithmetic of a claim.Video7 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E04What is a Certificate of Balance?Summary documents versus supporting records, and why the consequence of a decision determines the duty to verify.Video2 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E05Where Did the Records Go?Document retention, the right to receive records under the National Credit Act, and what to do when records go missing.Video4 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E06The R20m MysteryTracing balance movements through a statement, and what happens when a movement cannot be explained by the records.Video2 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E07The Missing DividendDividend declarations, allocation schedules and the records needed to show that a distribution actually reached its beneficiary.Video7 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E08Can a Bank Lose Records?Record-keeping duties of financial institutions and the consequences when an institution says records no longer exist.Video2 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E09What Trustees Are Supposed to DoTrustee duties, administration agreements and the standard of care owed to beneficiaries.Video2 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E10The Ordinary South AfricanHow the issues in earlier episodes affect ordinary households, and why documentary evidence matters to everyone.Video5 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E11Why Do Some Appeal Courts Give Only Short Orders?Reasoned judgments, short orders and what litigants are entitled to understand about a decision.Video1 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E12When Does Persistence Become Vexatious Litigation?The line between persistent pursuit of a remedy and abuse of court process.Video1 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E13Can Someone Sequestrate You First Before Proving They Are Your Creditor?Proof of creditor status and the sequence of proof required before sequestration relief.Video1 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E14How Do Courts Decide Which Urgent Case To Hear First?Urgency, court rolls and the ordering of competing urgent matters.Video1 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E15Why Do Parties Oppose Rescission Applications?Rescission of judgments and the interests engaged when it is opposed.Video1 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E16Can Decisions Of Higher Courts Ever Be Challenged?Finality, appeal routes and the limited paths for challenging higher courts.Video1 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E17Who Governs The Governors?Oversight of oversight bodies and the architecture of accountability.Video1 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E18Should The Right Person Be In The Right Job?Fitness for office, appointments and institutional competence.Video1 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E19What Must The State Deliver To The People?Service-delivery obligations and how performance can be measured.Video1 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E20Who Owns Public Resources?Custodianship of public assets and the duties of those who hold them.Video1 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E21We Get The Government We Vote ForVoter responsibility, representation and the consequences of participation.Video1 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E22Which Date Controls After Sequestration?The accounting date, the final-order date and the tax-identity date cannot be treated as one event. How to ask what legal purpose each date serves.Coming soon1 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E23Who Speaks For The Estate?Trustees decide, attorneys communicate instructions, and taxpayers retain separate duties — who may decide, who may communicate, and who must file which return.Coming soon1 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E24Can A Criminal Complaint Continue?Civil restrictions, criminal investigation and the presumption of innocence: the complainant supplies information, while SAPS and the prosecution control the docket. V1.1 adds the public court-record clarification and the CAS 525/11/2023 status ladder.Coming soon1 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E25The Difference Between Animals And HumansAnimal societies test function through consequence, while human institutions can protect a mismatch with title, procedure and patronage. The episode sets a four-part appointment standard: competence, authority, independence and accountability.Coming soon1 PDFWatch episode →
- S1 · E26The Tree Behind The DividendsCapital, ownership and distributions must be reconstructed separately. A dividend is the fruit; the approximately R285 million investment and the shareholding behind it are the tree.Coming soon1 PDFWatch episode →