According to Sheldon Jennings, principal architect and founder of property inspection firm ArchiCheck, the Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act (SPLUMA) - set for implementation in October 2020 - has led to a 60% increase in the demand for property inspections over the past three months...
16 Sep 2020
It has been 30 years since Nelson Mandela was released from prison and South Africa began to dismantle apartheid...
Zander Venter 31 Jul 2020
The Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act 16 of 2013 (SPLUMA) which came into effect in 2015 was established to provide a uniform system of spatial planning and land use management throughout South Africa in order for municipalities to apply land use control...
Issued by Abrahams & Gross 16 Apr 2020
According to new legislation, all municipalities will have to be compliant with the SPLUMA (Spatial Planning and Land Use Management Act) by October 2020...
Oliver Moorcroft 19 Feb 2020
The City of Cape Town is "subsidising the wealthy elite" by planning to extend the lease on the Rondebosch golf course for another ten years at a very low rental fee, says activist group Ndifuna Ukwazi...
Lucas Nowicki 24 Jan 2020
The long-awaited Tafelberg case ended on Friday, 29 November, after five days in the Western Cape High Court...
Madison Yauger 2 Dec 2019
The Harbour Arch development, which will be the largest of its kind in the Cape Town city centre, was approved by the Municipal Planning Tribunal on Thursday, 24 October...
Aisha Abdool Karim 25 Oct 2019
By understanding and working with different levels and spheres of government on, for example, land use, informal retailers and other food security issues, De Visser hopes to promote a more inclusive and just food system in South Africa...
Mologadi Makwela 4 May 2018
Despite a profound housing and segregation crisis, the City of Cape Town continues to lease well-located public land for next to nothing to private companies and associations for bowling greens, parking lots, golf courses, and other inefficient and exclusive uses...
Nick Budlender 13 Mar 2018
Throughput is imperative in business. The challenge is to mitigate barriers negatively impacting throughput...
Harry van Huyssteen 11 Dec 2017
The Philippi Horticultural Area Food and Farming Campaign have taken the City's rezoning decision for judicial review...
Mary-Anne Gontsana 30 Oct 2017
If the Regulation of Agricultural Land Holdings Bill is enacted in its present form, it will have far-reaching consequences on the agricultural sector...
William Midgley 10 Apr 2017