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29 June 2020
Daily Maverick
Since 13 May 2020, when deeds offices were deemed operational under Level 4 of the lockdown, the Cape Town office has closed its doors a number of times for various reasons. Now, after being open for just over a month, it has closed again, unable to disclose when it will reopen.
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12 June 2020
The Citizen
This after an application by the Cape Town Attorneys Association (CTAA), Tygerberg Attorneys' Association and Institute of Estate Agents of South Africa on Friday for the order to open.
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07 June 2020
News 24
The National Education Health and Allied Workers Union says that from Lockdown Level 4, only 30% of the workforce was supposed to be in the office, so this has caused delays in how many deeds can be registered.
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05 June 2020
Times Live
The Ingonyama Trust Board has challenged parliament to produce evidence of its alleged incompetence, accusing the legislature of treating the trust as renegades
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04 June 2020
Mail & Guardian
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05 June 2020
News 24
MPs are dissatisfied by the Ingonyama Trust's failure to meet its targets in the third and fourth quarters of the 2019/'20 financial year.
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03 June 2020
IOL
The proposed suspension or withholding of trust funds for the financial year was due to the trust’s lack of clear programmes to deal with the empowerment of youth, women and people with disabilities in the rural communities
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20 May 2020
Daily Maverick
Covid-19 has heightened the vulnerability of the powerless, who are now exposed to the whims of governments who have at their disposal absolute power as a result of the state of emergency and ‘the undemocratic nature of disasters’.
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12 May 2020
Food for Mzansi
Property transfers that were in limbo since the start of the covid-19 lockdown will be unfrozen from tomorrow, with deeds offices opening nationally and with some services rendered exclusively online. The chief registrar of deeds has also announced that no interest will be charged on deeds...
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12 May 2020
Mail & Guardian
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Land governance and administration read moreMaverick Citizen Friday Activist: Odette Geldenhuys, a lawyer doing heart work that benefits all https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2020-07-03-odette-geldenhuys-a-lawyer-doing-heart-work-that-benefits-all/
Economists urge MPs to reject Tito Mboweni’s budget https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/national/2020-07-01-economists-urge-mps-to-reject-tito-mbowenis-budget/ via @BusinessLiveSA
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