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Can the lights go out during a billing dispute?

20 September 2024,  Corlia van Zyl

Did you know that South African municipalities must follow strict legal guidelines when managing your account and service delivery?

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Businesses, body corporates, and the right to electricity

27 June 2024

Can a business enforce its right to receive electricity if the body corporate under which that business falls fails to... pay its service fees to the municipality? 

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Title Deed Conditions: Municipal building clause containing reversionary right in favour of a municipality

05 July 2022,  Libo van Aswegen

The practical implication of a recent Constitutional Court ruling is that should a Title Deed contain a similar condition affording a... Municipality the right to claim re-transfer of a property within a certain period of time, the right will not be valid in perpetuity of time for it is not a registrable real right.

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Government and POPIA - applicable or not?

14 June 2021

With all the talk of POPIA coming into effect and businesses having to get ready to comply, I was wondering... whether government and municipalities also need to comply with POPIA. Surely, government entities have a lot of personal information in their possession that they must protect.

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Are you liable for interest on municipal rates accounts not received?

16 April 2021,  Cleopatra Mukhari

I purchased my first house a few months ago and have never received a municipal rates and taxes account from... the municipality. I tried a few times to call the municipality but no one got back to me. When I eventually went to the municipality, I was informed that I am in arrears and that they have charged me interest even though I never even received an account. Can they do this?

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Japie Kruger on MedFM: illegal business next door

02 May 2019,  Japie Kruger

It's no fun and games when a business opens its doors illegally in a residential area. Yet there is legal... recourse you can take! Japie Kruger discusses on MedFM 101.4 FM.

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What to do when a business opens next door to your house

11 April 2019,  Japie Kruger

Our house is situated in what used to be a quiet residential suburb. Lately though, more and more businesses have... started opening up around us with houses being converted into business offices. This has ruined our quiet neighbourhood and resulted in more traffic and other problems in our neighbourhood. Surely businesses cannot just open up offices in a residential area? Is there anything we can do?

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