While judges are ushered into retirement at 70, South African attorneys have the luxury of practising law indefinitely, provided they remain sharp and capable. According to the latest data from the Law Society of South Africa (LSSA) there are over 33,000 practising attorneys and 6,500 candidate attorneys in the country. While detailed age demographics are not always readily available, recent findings...
The Pretoria Asset Forfeiture Unit (AFU) has secured a preservation order from the Pretoria High Court for a house valued at R2.2 million in Hartbeespoort, North West. TH property, owned by Johannes Jakobus Badenhorst, known as Hannes Badenhorst, and his wife, Christelle Badenhorst, was allegedly acquired through funds linked to a fraudulent scheme involving diamond investments. The house,...
Despite not having the enjoyment of a property he bought, a Parklands homeowner has hope to move into his home after an inherited illegal occupier was evicted by the Western Cape High Court. Earlier this week, the high court issued an eviction order against a woman who refused to move from the home that she and her estranged husband and their children lived in. The new homeowner, who has...
Cape Town - An Italian property mogul and her husband, supported by the Camps Bay and Clifton Ratepayers Association in a public petition, have claimed their neighbour has breached building height regulations, obscuring their scenic view. This, while the owner vehemently disputes the allegations, stating his plans allow him to build a 10-metre wall. The petition against the construction...
Cape Town - In a significant month marking forced removals, the Constitutional Court has reserved judgment on a case concerning housing activists against the City of Cape Town and others, regarding the Tafelberg site in Sea Point. The matter landed in the apex court on Tuesday following a Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) judgment handed down last year, which ruled in favour of the Western Cape...
At the time of their eviction, the removal of homeless people who occupied the land outside the Castle of Good Hope was hailed as a positive move. The homeless people were evicted after resisting a mandate by the Western Cape High Court to relocate by October 17. They were ordered to vacate the precinct outside the Castle after the court ruled in favour of the Department of Public Works and...
In a landmark decision, the Body Corporate of Bondi in Roodepoort has secured a ruling from the South Gauteng High Court in Johannesburg, permitting the sale of a property due to unpaid levies amounting to R50,974,31. The ruling comes after one of the co-owners, Siboniso Caleb Sithole, appealed the ruling initially made by Roodepoort Magistrates Court in September 2022. When the initial...
THE ball is now in the court of the City’s Planning Appeals Advisory Panel (PAAP) to recommend the future of a six-storey hotel development planned to be built less than 20 meters from South Africa’s oldest mosque, Auwal Masjid in Bo Kaap. The building has drawn widespread criticism from the residents of the historic area, with the Bo-Kaap Civic and Ratepayers Association (BKCRA) expressing...
In a case of David taking on Goliath, a homeowner who lost his house after a default judgment was issued against him, based on wrong calculations by Nedbank, emerged victorious as the Gauteng High Court, Pretoria, had overturned the sale in execution. Prenash Somlal, who appeared in person fighting his case against Nedbank, turned to court to have a default judgment against him overturned. The...
A real estate employee appeared in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Courton Thursday on charges of fraud. Riaan Theunissen, 36, faces over 400 charges of fraud. The Western Cape spokesperson for the Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation (known as Hawks), Lieutenant Colonel Siyabulela Vukubi said Theunissen’s appearance comes after a warrant of arrest was executed against him. Theunissen...
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