by Daan Steenkamp | Nov 3, 2025 | Business, Economics, Economy, Legal, Practice, Property, Uncategorized
Practice News The Northern Cape High Court has overruled the MEC for Agriculture, holding that rhino conservation breeding facilities may be granted permits to export rhino horns. This is hailed as a breakthrough for conservation. New rules for the Small Claims...
by Daan Steenkamp | Oct 20, 2025 | Business, Economics, Economy, Legal, Property, Snippet, Uncategorized
Practice News Lawyers misbehaving: Our former Public Protector, Adv. Mkhwebane is to stand trial for perjury in February. A report, out this morning and, on the face of it, true, is a Facebook note on the outgoing frontrunner of the R NPA, Batohi, having described her...
by Daan Steenkamp | Mar 10, 2025 | Business, Economics, Economy, Legal, Practice, Property, Snippet
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...
by Daan Steenkamp | Feb 24, 2025 | Business, Economics, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
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...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jan 28, 2025 | Business, Economics, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
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,...
by Daan Steenkamp | Jun 14, 2022 | Business, Economics, Practice, Snippet
Economy You might recall that I had, last week, made a note on the risk of world stagflation having increased. Our economy is picking up but so is our inflation rate. The problem is that the pick-up of our economy is modest, if that and inflation is certainly not...
