November / December 2020 – The conveyancer’s options when the Deeds Office rejects deeds for the wrong reason: Part 2
By Gert Minnaar 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 [...]
September / October 2020 – The conveyancer’s options when the Deeds Office rejects deeds for the wrong reason: Part 1
By Gert Minnaar 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 [...]
March / April 2020 – Charging developers for installation of services: A new approach
By Maryna Botha Municipalities’ revenue collection increasingly poses challenges, partly because collection systems are not uniform and transparent, and also because financial management systems remain weak, as evidenced by the R130-billion owed to municipalities for [...]
January / February 2020 – Discussing SPLUMA: Part 2
This is the second part of the series ‘Discussing SPLUMA’, this time focusing on engagement with the Deeds Office. […]
November / December 2019 – Discussing Section 53 of SPLUMA: Part 1
This is Part 1 of discussing Section 53 of the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act, 2013 (No 16 of 2013) (SPLUMA). Part 2 in the January 2020 issue will continue the article with [...]
September / October 2020 – Questioning developers’ levy liability in new township HOA development
There are fairly regular incidences of judgments where developers question their liability for owner levies in respect of erven in townships opened on large parcels of land they own. By Maryna Botha […]