by Daan Steenkamp | Jun 30, 2025 | Business, Economy, Property, Snippet, Uncategorized
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...
by Daan Steenkamp | May 13, 2025 | Business, Economy, Legal, Property, Snippet, Uncategorized
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,...
by Daan Steenkamp | Apr 25, 2025 | Business, Economy, Legal, Property, Snippet, Uncategorized
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...
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...