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Articles and advice on all things legalSnippet 10-2025
Practice News Undoubtedly the legal news of the week was made, again, by the RAF; certainly, high time that this institution is held up to scrutiny: Scopa has launched a full parliamentary enquiry into the RAF, after it withheld information and then provided false...
Snippet 09-2025
Practice News RAF The RAF’s CEO, you will recall, was first placed on special leave and thereafter on full suspension, on his refusing to appear before SCOPA. He believes that the treatment meted out to him is owing to the legal and judicial elites conspiring in an...
Snippet 08-2025
Practice News The RAF was taken to task in the High Court for contentiously ignoring all the court orders issued… Is this news? Minister Creecy emerged from her dressing room to warn that she would institute a financial misconduct case against the fund’s board; again,...
Snippet 07-2025
Practice News Practitioners behaving badly: You will recall that the LPC is in the process of a striking-off application against adv Mkhwebane. She responded by pleading politics and stating that she is not a practising advocate anyway. The LPC has not covered itself...
Snippet 06-2025
Practice News: Inefficiency and the delay that it brings is endemic to our country. This has spilt over into our court administration. Public Works is behind in its maintenance which, coupled with water and power interruptions and lack of money and the non-employment...
Snippet 05-2025
Practice News It is said that our national sex offenders list should reach over 40,000 names, but there are doubts whether it will be published. The original date of publication had been the end of February, but confidentiality concerns have caused the Minister to...
Snippet 04-2025
PROPERTY Trends Much has been and will be said about our property price trends; visualisation is just so much better (graph by Codera): You will note that the Cape Town prices substantially outperform those in the balance of our country. The semi-gration tide seems to...
Snippet 03-2025
Practice News: Practitioners misbehaving: Adv Mpofu had argued that it was a racist and condescending to assume that Nummawan and his legal team was pursuing a so-called Stalingrad strategy; suggesting that they could not think for themselves. Fun. MK’s John Hlope, in...
Snippet 02-2025
Property Trends: The stagnant South African housing market is showing signs of recovery outside of Cape Town, with predictions of a possible price boom in the offing. Ooba reported a 30% surge in home loan applications for November. If our interest rate is cut,...
Snippet 01-2025
Property Trends: Regular readers of property news will recall that especially (the average) South African residential property prices are in decline, when compared to our inflation rate. South Africans are not alone in this position, as may be seen from the following...
Snippet 20-2024
PropertyTrends:Our residential rental market reflects the increasingly positive market outlook and stood at a record low vacancy rate of 5.07% in Q3/2024.Similarly, Growthpoint reports declining office rental vacancy space, stating that coastal regions outperform...
Snippet 2024-19
PropertyTrendsFNB reports that fewer South Africans are immigrating out of the country of late with such dropping from 8 to 7% now, down from 14.2% in Q1 2019. It also says that there is an uptick in, especially, the affordable housing market, owing to stronger market...
Snippet 2024-18
PropertyTrends:Consensus has it that the tide is turning in the property market – whilst this may be so, there is little of this yet aside from interest. Investors are reportedly piling into the listed property sector to take advantage of the coming surge.Whilst...
Snippet 2024-17
PropertyTrends: With inflation seemingly under control, the expectation is that more aggressive interest rate cuts will follow, which should stimulate our property market.The residential market has stabilised, with isolated spots showing real price increases, such as...
Snippet 2024-16
Practice News Legal PractitionersDr Hlope has been in the news quite often of late; the MK party’s application for leave to appeal the decision that Hlope be prohibited from serving on the JSC will be heard on the first November.Dali Mpofu SC is a well-known...
Snippet-15
Economy/businessTrendsA rising economic tide? Shakespeare could have been referring to our economy: “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune…”It has been 14 years since our real economy has had a rising tide – but change is...
Snippet 2024 – 14
Economy/businessTrendsBusiness appears to anticipate a repo rate cut in September by our Reserve Bank. Strangely, the Bank of America reportedly expects our Reserve Bank to start cutting interest rates soon – by 25 basis points at each of its following four...
Snippet 13 – 2024
Economy/businessTrendsThe IMF predicts a slowdown of the world economy to 3.2% – KPMG estimates a slowing to 2.5%. Our economy shrank marginally by 0.1% from the expected 0.7% to 0.6% growth in the first quarter of this year – the IMF predicts our growth for the year...
