General introduction -- The South African legal system and its history -- Creation of legal rules and the administration of justice -- General principles of the law of contract -- Introduction to the law of contract -- Consensus -- Contractual capacity -- Legality, possibility of performance and certainty -- Formalities -- Parties to the contract, conditions and related concepts, particular terms and interpretation of contracts -- Breach of contract and termination of contractual relationship -- Agency -- Introduction to the law of agency -- Relationship between parties to agency -- Special types of principals and agents -- Purchase and sale -- General introduction to the law of purchase and sale -- Duties of the seller -- Duties of the buyer -- Letting and hiring -- Formation of the contract of lease -- Duties of the lessor and the lessee -- Miscellaneous aspects of the law of lease -- Credit agreements -- General introduction and historical background -- Application of Act and conclusion of credit agreements -- Consumer credit institutions and regulative matters -- Rights and duties of parties -- Financial matters, dispute settlement and debt enforcement. -- Insurance and carriage -- Introduction to insurance law and insurance contracts -- Specific aspects of insurance contracts and non-life and life insurance -- Carriage -- Security -- General introduction and suretyship -- Mortgage, pledge and cession in security -- Hypothecs and liens -- The bill of exchange, cheque and promissory note and electronic payment methods -- General principles of the law of negotiable instruments -- Cheques -- Electronic payment methods -- Insolvency -- Introduction and sequestration -- Effects of sequestration -- Administration of insolvent estates, composition, rehabilitation, offences and winding-up of companies and close corporations -- Labour law -- General introduction to labour law -- Individual labour law -- Collective labour law -- Construction, engineering and services contracts -- Alternative dispute resolution -- The Consumer Protection Act.