Legal Articles and Guides

The property previously owned by former President Nelson Mandela in Houghton, Johannesburg, where his grandson Mbuso was arrested with four hijacking suspects on Wednesday, is not rented out.

Residents of Woodstock’s Bromwell Street, who have waged an eight-year legal battle to stop them from being evicted from the houses they, and generations before them, have always called home, celebrated after the Constitutional Court barred their eviction until the City of Cape Town has developed a new housing programme, incorporating transitional housing.

A man who owes Standard Bank more than R3m on his bond and had his home sold, lost his SCA bid to set aside the sale and the subsequent transfer of the property to a new owner. Dayalan Munsami was aggrieved that his Johannesburg multi-million-rand mansion was sold for R360 000 at a public auction.

Advocate Dali Mpofu SC and his wife Mpumi have obtained an eviction order to remove his sister-in-law, Nomathamsanqa Vallihu, out of their Houghton home, reports City Press.

Western Cape High Court Acting Judge Paul Farlam has declared the City of Cape Town installation of a sewerage pipeline constructed over a Hout Bay property unlawful.

Six white former executives of IT group Dimension Data say their legal team is preparing an application for leave to appeal a High Court ruling that implicated them in a ‘brazen and dishonest’ scheme to benefit from a lucrative BEE property deal, according to Fin24.

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North West High Court (Mafikeng) Judge President Ronald Hendricks has overturned the sale of a house on auction to ‘the highest bidder’ after a divorced wife went behind her husband’s back and bought the home, valued at more than R1.5m, through her attorney for just R1 000.

A nine-year feud between two warring neighbours at an exclusive housing estate in Gauteng has reached the SCA and cost a retired businessman R3m in legal fees – with no resolution in sight.

The SCA has ruled that the Valuation Appeal Board (VAB) of the Ehlanzeni district in Mpumalanga erred in ignoring expert evidence brought by Johann Rupert’s golf course Leopard Creek in its long-drawn valuation dispute with the Nkomazi Local Municipality.

The Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) has recognised property as a family home, and thus protected the rights of a family who was facing possible eviction.

An image depicting three new luxury homes for sale in the upmarket suburb of Bishopscourt looked too good to be true.

A group of people who had set up makeshift homes around the Castle of Good Hope have been evicted by authorities in Cape Town.

The owners of the Enyobeni Tavern in East London – where 21 people died in June 2022 – have been ordered to demolish the structure at their own cost because it contravenes municipal zoning and building regulations.

The sale of a luxury home valued at nearly R7m has been put on hold after a woman urgently turned to the court as she claimed that her husband, from whom she is divorcing, is trying to sell the house clandestinely behind her back.