News and commentary from the offices of Simon Dippenaar
A fresh start for the real estate industry? Estate agents don’t have the best reputation. In most cases, this is unfair and undeserved. Many estate agents are hard-working and want to do the best job possible for their clients. Unfortunately, an unscrupulous minority has given the industry a bad name. Estate agents are often stereotyped […]
What landlords and tenants need to know about eviction Nobody wants to be evicted. And it’s rare that landlords want to evict tenants. A healthy landlord–tenant relationship is a mutually beneficial situation where one party has a home to live in and the other enjoys an income from their asset. In an ideal world, no […]
Media reports and public debate often simplify and blur the sensitive issue of evictions. Typically, evictions are seen solely from the perspective of the landowner or from that of landless people, and there is a failure to distinguish between lawful and unlawful evictions. Annelize Crosby, policy head for land affairs at Agri SA, explains the […]
Thato Masiangoako 18 Mar 2020 Between June 30 2017 and May 3 2018, 11 inner-city buildings in Johannesburg’s central business district were raided by the SAPS .(Delwyn Verasamy/M&G) Between June 30 2017 and May 3 2018, 11 inner-city buildings in Johannesburg’s central business district were raided at the behest of the then-minister of police, Fikile […]
Sometimes occupants are treated unfairly by municipalities. But sometimes the municipality is in the right. In Mangaung, Bloemfontein, some residents owe significant monies to the municipality, causing it severe financial hardship, as this article from News 24 shows. The cash-strapped Mangaung Metro Municipality is tracing historical debt dating back to the 1990s in its desperate […]
