
Practical legal solutions that make business sense.
Business Specialists. Activists for Business.
We do the conventional, unconventionally.
About us
MC Botha Inc. is an independent law firm serving the needs of commerce and industry. We offer a full suite of business-focused legal services and expertise, drawing on over 30 years’ experience in corporate, commercial, tax and energy law.
We’ve grown a talent and a reputation for doing things differently, that gets results.
We are champions for the cause of business, with a successful track record in litigation challenging decisions and regulations of organs of state that hamper economic activity and investment.
We are experienced and skilled in assisting both private and public sector clients in navigating an increasingly complex regulatory environment.
With depth of legal experience, a business mindset and innovative thinking, our specialist legal services are geared to achieving strategic and practical solutions that make business sense in a fast-changing world, amid the complexities of doing business in South Africa today.
WHO WE ARE
We are bold, innovative, strategic, and passionate about servicing our clients’ needs. We pride ourselves on exceptional, personal service at every level of interaction with our firm.
We are approachable, direct and unpretentious.
We understand business, and we know the law.
To be the preferred provider of specialist, business-oriented legal solutions to commerce and industry.
- Loyalty and dedicated focus on their business
- Independent thinking and advice
- Activist commitment to a cause
- Strong principles that underpin everything we do
Our approach is personal and accessible, partnering with our clients to achieve effective business outcomes.
We aim to address the growing need for tailored, legal solutions to the business challenges of a dynamic, technology-driven and over-regulated (ironically, sometimes under-regulated) world. Doing business in South Africa presents its own unique challenges, requiring unique solutions. In response, we think and act out-of-the-box, pursue new approaches, challenge authority and conventional thinking.
Our ultimate aim, is to achieve commercially sensible and practical solutions for our clients operating in a complex and fast-changing environment.
We do not accept the status quo without question. Nor do we accept hurdles, roadblocks or “that’s just the way it is” – we find lawful solutions and ways around the ever-escalating challenges experienced by business.
We are solution-finders and success matters to us – achieving results that support our clients’ business objectives.
We are strategic and embrace out-of-the-box thinking and innovative approaches. We think and act independently.
We are business activists, champions for the cause of business, because we believe the legal and regulatory environment should support business, not stifle it.

OUR HISTORY
MC Botha Inc. opened on 1 March 2023 in Nelson Mandela Bay when our founding director MC Botha took the leap from leading one of the largest commercial law firms in the Eastern Cape to establishing his own; focused and specialised; independent firm.
MC has built a solid reputation over the past 37 years as a specialist in commercial, corporate, tax and energy law, advising leading businesses across South Africa and driving successful litigation on behalf of organised business to champion a regulatory environment conducive to business. The firm expanded in 2024, opening a branch office in St Francis Bay to service business and industry in the Kouga region and provide seamless, remote services to clients countrywide.
OUR SERVICES
We operate across the broad spectrum of legal services for business, with specialist expertise in:

Administrative and Constitutional Law
Procurement Law,
Competition Law

Corporate and Commercial
Business Strategy and Planning, Company Structures, Commercial Litigation, Corporate Governance, and Transaction Advice and Structuring

Energy and
Regulatory Law
Compliance, Energy Tariffs, Licencing, Renewable Energy

Building and Construction
Contracts, Procurement, Dispute resolution, Joint ventures, GCC, JBCC, FIDIC

Tax
Taxation disputes, Tax structuring and advice, Estate Planning
OUR PEOPLE
City Power has no lawful tariffs but cuts power supply
City Power has no lawful tariffs but cuts power supply. Moneyweb, 5 December 2024.
Despite a court order that declared its electricity tariffs unlawful, the City of Johannesburg’s power utility City Power continued to threaten four large power users with disconnection due to non-payment of these tariffs.
The companies and their industry body – the Casting, Forging and Machining Cluster of South Africa (CFMC) – last week obtained an interdict to stop City Power from cutting their electricity supply.
MC Botha Inc. branches out to St Francis Bay
Specialist commercial law firm MC Botha Inc. has opened a branch office in St Francis Bay to extend their business-focused legal services to the Kouga region, including Jeffreys Bay, Humansdorp, Patensie, and surrounds.
Court rules City Power tariffs unlawful, set aside
Court rules City Power tariffs unlawful, set aside. Moneyweb, 28 November 2022.
MC Botha represented the Casting, Forging and Machining Cluster of South Africa (CFMC) and four individual businesses in a successful court application against Nersa, City Power and the City of Joburg on the basis that Nersa failed to assess City Power’s cost of supply when it determined their tariffs.
Wie gaan betaal vir daardie skuld, Eskom?
Wie gaan betaal vir daardie skuld, Eskom? (Who is going to pay for that debt, Eskom?). Rapport Sake, 20 November 2022.
Energy tariff expert MC Botha says time will tell if the costs of Eskom’s R9 billion World Bank loan to decommission and repurpose the Komati power station for renewable energy will be passed on to consumers in the form of increased electricity tariffs.