The South African Property Owners Association (SAPOA) has launched a High Court application against the City of Joburg (“the City”) interdicting it from applying the 2021 Development Contributions Policy (DCP), and declaring amongst other things that the City may not impose any condition on the granting of a land development application which requires the applicant to pay a development charge or contribution relating to services and/or infrastructure other than required by the development to which the application relates.

Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has set itself a goal of modernising the collection of statistics, while also fine tuning trade statistics.

SAPOA calls for Minister to invoke discretionary powers to expedite spatial planning.

About R12bn in property work perhaps more is stalled by a transition to new property legislation, says Sapoa.