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Blog | POPI and Privacy Protection

Introduction This past week I needed to visit a client in a residential estate in Stellenbosch. On arrival, the licence disk of my car was scanned and the security officers scanned my driver’s licence. The home owner had also sent

Blog | Procedures to Report Suspected Child Abuse

It is important to note that any person who works with children, such as doctors, nurses, dentists, teachers or therapists have a mandatory obligation to report suspected physical abuse. Neighbours and friends whom suspect a child is suffering physical abuse

Blog | I am unable to afford my monthly homeloan re-payments, what options do I have?

For many people, a bond is their largest monthly debt instalment. Due to the current economic woes caused by the Covid-19 pandemic many people are struggling to pay their monthly bond instalments and have fallen into arrears or are simply

Blog | Challenging your right to bequeath your assets as you wish

On 10 June, legal academic Prof Pierre De Vos argued in his blog post, Constitutionally Speaking, that there is a need to reform the laws of succession both in South Africa and on a global scale. “Nothing is certain except for death and taxes” is

The Cape Town Deeds Office – one month after re-opening

Just under a month ago, on the 13th of May 2020 the Cape Town Deeds Office (the “Deeds Office”) opened with limited staff to conveyancers only. Between 13 May 2020 and 06 June 2020 a total of 11 977 Deeds

LEVEL 3 REQUIREMENTS FOR ESTATE AGENTS

Since the good news that many businesses may again operate under the Level 3 regulations that become effective tomorrow, 1 June, many questions have been raised by agents as to their responsibilities. Here is a list of important requirements:

Blog | What are asset-for-share transfers?

The most common way of purchasing a property is whereby a Seller sells a property for a certain amount and the Purchaser settles the purchase price by either cash or a loan from a financial institution or perhaps a combination

Blog | Covid-19 and its Impact on Gender Based Violence

The Effect of the Lockdown on Victims of Abuse The South African government’s swift and ruthless response to the Covid-19 outbreak was praised by numerous South Africans. A great deal of the South African population fundamentally believed that the imposition

Blog | The State of Emergency and the Administration of Justice

A recent judgement by Brauckmann AJ (“the presiding judge”) in Dr JS Moroka Municipality and others v Kubheka [2020] ZAMPMHC 3 addressed and condemned specific conduct of legal practitioners amid a state of emergency. However, it is argued that the

Blog | Business as usual for sectional title schemes

In and during March 2020, and in response to the novel coronavirus outbreak in South Africa, the government, for the first time in our democracy, declared a national state of disaster and gazetted regulations which, inter alia, prohibited gatherings of more