Legal Articles and Guides

A Mpumalanga man who sold his land for R1.1m has been ordered to transfer ownership after he changed his mind about the sale and claimed he had to consult his wife.

When a neighbours’ dispute over a boundary wall turned violent in 2021, a Gqeberha man landed in hospital with multiple stab wounds and two brothers found themselves before court, where they were convicted of attempted murder, reports the Daily Maverick.

The owner of a controversial motocross track between Plettenberg Bay and Knysna has been told to stop clearing indigenous vegetation without permission.

Property owners and tenants will be affected by the recent updates to the Rental Housing Act, reports The Mercury.

The controversial Gupta family’s Saxonwold compound has been sold for approximately R34.5m, Park Village Auctions (PVA) said.

A farmworker family has won a David and Goliath battle which prevents the farm owner from evicting them from a place they’ve called home for generations.

Disputes over 'family houses' dominate queries at the Orange Farm Advice Centre, notes David Dickinson, attorney with Lawyers for Human Rights and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Wits University.

The owners of an upmarket Drakensberg golf and housing estate and their attorneys have been slapped with two punitive costs orders after they managed to secure, for a pittance, three neighbouring farms without the knowledge of their owners.

Following a years-long dispute over land use compliance with the Stellenbosch Municipality, the owners of the Root44 Wine Emporium and its weekend market are putting the winelands property up for sale, News24 says.

A ‘band of brigands’ have emerged victorious from an eight-year battle to create a public thoroughfare amid stiff opposition from Hermanus millionaires who didn't want to share their exclusive sea views.

A Somerset couple has hauled Pam Golding Properties to court, seeking more than R500 000 in damages over structural defects to a property they purchased nearly 10 years ago.

After waiting nearly three decades to reclaim their ancestral land, the Prudhoe community’s hard-won victory has been thrown into chaos reports the Daily Dispatch.

For the first time since announcing a ‘settlement agreement’ with various parties in November 2024, Accelerate Property Fund – the 50% co-owner of Fourways Mall – has said that it may be forced to write off the R800m it is owed by those entities, most of which are related to Nic Georgiou (whose vehicle Azrapart owns the other 50% of the mall).

The Lesedi Local Municipality wants lawyer and businessman Bouwe Wiersma out of the Heidelberg Heritage Museum and is going to court to make it happen, reports City Press.

Johannesburg’s Killarney Country Club is gearing up for a legal brawl over the cancellation of its lease. With membership fees of up to R26 500 a year, the 96-year-old golf course is in a prime location.