Legal Articles and Guides

The City of Cape Town has taken a no-nonsense approach to Sea Point residents who have been participating in a rates boycott by cutting off their water and deducting outstanding rates from prepaid electricity purchases.

A farm owner who attempted to evict pensioner Katie Moyeni (73), despite the fact she had stayed and worked at the farm since 1997, has failed in the SCA.

The 60 waste pickers who live next to SuperSport Park in Centurion – informally known as Mushroomville – have failed in their first step to ask the court for a lifeline to remain on the land.

The collective of artists and LGBTQI+ people occupying an Airbnb house in Camps Bay have been ordered to vacate the luxury property, says a News24 report.

The concepts of working from home and running home businesses have always been with us, but never before have they played such a central role in our lifestyle and property choices. After looking at “what’s hot” in the resultant property market trends, we’ll discuss what our laws have to say about the legality of conducting any one of three categories of business operations from residential premises.

LGBTQ+ organisation the Triangle Project said it would be engaging in discussions with social justice movement #WeSeeYou, who have occupied a Camps Bay, Cape Town, mansion.

Judgment has been reserved in Cape Town’s leave to appeal a judgment in August by the Western Cape High Court that granted an interim interdict against the city from carrying out any evictions or demolishing of shacks.

Owners of units in some Johannesburg apartment blocks hit with a big increase in their council bills after their properties were rezoned and revaluated have teamed up to challenge the council in court, according to a Business Day report.

A group occupying a house in Camps Bay in Cape Town faces legal and civil action for refusing to honour a check-out deadline set by the property managers.

A case of fraud and trespassing has been opened against a collective of artists and activists who have taken occupation of a property in Camps Bay, says a Weekend Argus report.

The City of Cape Town has served eviction notices on a group of residents who invaded a piece of land next to Joe Slovo in Langa.

The State Capture Inquiry has heard how a R1bn housing project in the Free State was ‘completely irregular’. Free State Human Settlements head Nthimotse Mokhesi, giving evidence before the commission yesterday, told of an application he brought on behalf of the department to review its prepayments scheme to suppliers.

A plan to build a five-star hotel on the Cape Town Foreshore has raised the ire of housing activists. According to a Cape Argus report, social housing giant Communicare’s former offices in Roggebaai Square on the Foreshore have been sold to Sapphyr Properties for R120m.

The Western Cape Government has extended an olive branch to organisations that sued it over the sale of an historic Cape Town school site. This followed a judgment of the Western Cape High Court which overturned the sale.

A Limpopo High Court Acting Judge quoted famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso last week when ruling on the case between two women over a house in Polokwane.