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The legal status of a township with more than 1 township applicant

There are a number of townships, with two or more township applicants, which have been legally approved by the powers that be with formal conditions of establishment and with General Plans approved by the Surveyor-General for which the Registrar of

The sale and transfer of the whole, portion or remainder of a township

When a township applicant completes the township establishment process until the township is declared an approved township, he can finally reap the richly deserved reward for this strenuous effort by marketing and selling the stands in this township which then

Cancellation of title conditions imposed in terms of the Advertising on Roads and Ribbon Development Act

The Advertising on Roads and Ribbon Development Act 21 of 1940 (1940 Act) impose certain title conditions that are sometimes encountered in the title deeds for land or abutting on or close to a provincial road, on which a township

The dreaded Department of Agriculture letter for the opening of a township register

One of the final hurdles a township developer in the Gauteng and North-West Provinces must negotiate before the stands in a township become registrable, is the opening of the township register at the Deeds Office in Pretoria in terms of

How is the developer aided to comply?

As the leading property law firm in South Africa, STBB’s Property Development Unit combines specialist legal fields to form a single unit for land developers to receive specialist legal assistance in a comprehensive and integrated manner pertaining to each of

The importance of a conveyancer’s certificate to establish a township

The process to establish a township is in essence the conversion of raw land into a proclaimed township with streets, stands and parks as depicted on a General Plan, with conditions of establishment in the proclamation notice controlling the use

Thoughts on Township establishment

FORMALISING A TOWNSHIP: WHAT IF THE TRANSFER OF LAND GOES WRONG AT THE DEEDS OFFICE? The challenge to get a township formalized. The process to convert a piece of land into stands, parks and streets as depicted on a

The conveyancer’s options when the Deeds Office rejects deeds for the wrong reason: Part 2

What remedies has a conveyancer when an examiner at the Deeds Office rejects a deed for the wrong reasons? The first part of this article appeared in the September issue of SA Affordable Housing, including points 1-3. They must be

Unpacking the Housing Act and state subsidies

The Housing Act prevents the voluntarily sale and transfer of a FLISP subsidy house within eight years from date of acquisition. THE RIGHT TO ADEQUATE HOUSING In terms of section 26 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa

The conveyancer’s options when the Deeds Office rejects deeds for the wrong reason: Part 1

Whatever the public may have to say about civil servants, having worked as a junior and senior examiner in the Pretoria Deeds Office from the middle 1980s for four years, I can vouch for the fact that the Deeds Office

The legal status of a township with more than 1 township applicant

The sale and transfer of the whole, portion or remainder of a township

Cancellation of title conditions imposed in terms of the Advertising on Roads and Ribbon Development Act

The dreaded Department of Agriculture letter for the opening of a township register

How is the developer aided to comply?

The importance of a conveyancer’s certificate to establish a township

Thoughts on Township establishment

The conveyancer’s options when the Deeds Office rejects deeds for the wrong reason: Part 2

Unpacking the Housing Act and state subsidies

The conveyancer’s options when the Deeds Office rejects deeds for the wrong reason: Part 1

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