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• Corporate Law
• Conveyancing
• Labour/employment law
• Constitutional and Administrative law
• Drafting and reviewing of Policies and Legislation
• Contract Management and Review
• Corporate Governance

Corporate, Constitutional & Administrative Law

The firm’s Director and its associates have a wealth of experience in dealing with the above fields of law from their respective previous employments.

The Director has undertaken on behalf of the City of Tshwane a series of matters concerning Supply Chain Management issues, contract related disputes and awarding of tenders. She has also been involved in handling administrative law litigation for Mogale City, Ditsong Museums of South Africa and Northwest Transport Investment.

The Director has handled a lot of commercial and administrative law litigation whilst she was employed by the Office of the State Attorney in Durban.

Labour / Employment Law

The firm’s associates have vast experience in handling labour related litigation, including chairing disciplinary hearings and representing the employers at arbitration and labour court.

Conveyancing

The Director is an astute Conveyancing practitioner with 16 years experience dealing in complex conveyancing matters of the said 16 years more than five (9) constitute Conveyancing within the land reform transactions.

Experience in Land Reform Related Transactions

The Director has attended to the registration of transfers for a number of land reform cases in Limpopo Regional Claims Commission, Mpumalanga, Northwest and KwaZulu Natal . We appreciate and understand the need to expedite the registration and we have the title deeds delivered. This stems from our knowledge and experience in dealing with communal institutions, we have a full understanding of the underlying need for urgency. Our turnaround time for land reform transactions is as follows;

Where there are no mortgage bonds registered over the land, we register in two weeks.

Where there is a mortgage bond registered over the land, we take four weeks ( this is mainly due to the time frame it takes to obtain the cancellation figures, however as we are on most panels of the banks for bond registrations we have the knowledge of the escalation processes of most banks, in obtaining the figures speedily)

Reference:

• Mr T Mdontshwa
  Department of Rural Development and Land Reform
  +27 12 312 9191
• Mr P Zuma
  Department of Rural Development and Land Reform
  +27 33 355 8400
• Ms Selogadi Chuene
  Department of Rural Development and land reform
  +27 15 287 2600

Our Experience in Dealing With the Reconstruction & Development Transfers

The Director successfully assisted the City of Tshwane in providing registration and issuing of title deeds to the Mamelodi Ext 11 and 17 Communities pursuant to the Reconstruction and Development programme. We have also attended to registration of transfers on behalf of Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality and for Thubelisha Homes who were contracted by the Department of Human Settlements (formerly Housing) in the Reconstruction and Development programme transfers.

Reference:

• Mr Klaas Eskort
  City of Tshwane
  +27 12 358 4314
• Mr D Molefe
  Ephraim Mogale Local Municipality
  +27 13 260 8400

Property and Land Law

We offer comprehensive property law solutions to corporations, property developers, property brokers, real estate sectors, government, Municipalities and private individuals.

The Director has experience with dealing with the somewhat complex and not so complex Conveyancing transactions on behalf of Mogale City Local Municipality.

Conveyancing is one of the firm’s focal areas of expertise.
The Director has headed a Conveyancing Department wherein the bond registrations for the banks were effected.

The Director has given invaluable advice to developers during the early stages of the development such as giving advice on;

• Rezoning applications
• Applications for subdivisions
• Application for consolidation of properties
• Registration of servitudes
• Registration of Township Registers
• Registration of Sectional Title Schemes
• Registration of property transfers
• Building and construction contracts
• Expropriation
• Advice on and implementation of deceased and insolvent estate property transactions.
• Registration of subdivisions and consolidation of properties and
• General property advice

The Firm’s primary objective is the turnaround time in the registration of the above. We also offer regular progress reports on transactions.
We have fully fledged conveyancing department, consisting of two conveyancing secretaries and one conveyancer.

We have suitable software which connects us directly to the deeds office, therefore minimizing the turnaround time in as far as ascertaining ownership of land and verification of property description. The firm also subscribes to Ghostconvey software and law property.

Corporate Governance

The firm is capable of dealing with corporate governance matters by giving advice on the development of the corporate entities’ governance policies including state departments and Municipalities, this also includes advise on procurement policies of the entities.