Contracts in Everyday Life
As soon as you turn 18 you start signing contracts: a cellphone contract, a lease for a room, a gym membership, a store account, an employment contract. Each one creates legal duties that can follow you for years. Many young people sign without reading, pay penalties they did not expect or lose a deposit they could have recovered. This course explains what makes a contract valid, why age matters and when consent is not real, how cellphone and other fixed-term consumer contracts work, when you can and cannot change your mind under the cooling-off rules, your rights and duties as a tenant, how to read a contract before you sign, and what to do when the other side does not keep its side of the deal. The course is fully online and self-paced. Each lesson has a short activity in your workbook. You finish with a practical task and a final assessment, and you receive a MetaCo Certificate of Completion that you can add to your CV. The course gives general information, not legal advice.
What you will learn
Know what makes a contract valid, understand cellphone, consumer and rental agreements, and sign safely, with your rights under South African law.
- Module 1: Introduction
- Module 2: What Makes a Valid Contract
- Module 3: Cellphone and Consumer Contracts
- Module 4: Rental Agreements
- Module 5: Signing Safely and When Things Go Wrong
- Module 6: Putting It into Practice
How it is assessed
Short quizzes as you go, a final assessment with three attempts (fresh questions each time) and a practical task.
Certificate
MetaCo Certificate of Completion, with your own number and a QR code employers can scan. This certificate confirms completion of a MetaCo short course.
What you get
- The lessons, quiz and practical task
- A downloadable workbook (PDF)
- The Law toolkit
- A one-page cheat sheet to keep
- The MetaCo certificate with a QR verification link, and a "Copy to my CV" line
- The Career Starter Kit, free with your first purchase
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