by Daan Steenkamp | Apr 7, 2025 | Business, Economy
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...
by Daan Steenkamp | Mar 27, 2025 | Business, Economy, Practice, Property, Snippet
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...
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 | Jan 11, 2025 | Business, Economy, Legal, Practice, Property, Snippet
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...
