What do you think the first thing I ask a client is when they are consulting our firm in a divorce case? “How much money do you have?”; “Why do you want to divorce your spouse?”; “Were you unfaithful? Click here to download the full article
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It has been fourteen years since Judge Albie Sash’s ground-breaking judgment in the Constitutional Court granting LGBTI people the right to marry, and 13 years since the actual law came into being. The dust has settled, the initial shock of the majority of straights subsided and the euphoria of gays made way for the usual […]
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Congratulations to our previous candidate legal practitioner, Mienke Richter who was admitted as a Legal Practitioner and Advocate today. She is currently doing her pupillage at the Johannesburg Bar.
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Adv. Rudolph Jansen SC het diep spore in die menseregte-regspleging in Suid-Afrika getrap. Sedert hy by die Pretoria Balie in die laat tagtigs aangesluit het, het hy meestal opgetree vir die sogenaamde “underdog”. Ek was bevoorreg om as opdraggewende prokureur op te tree, met Adv. Jansen aan die stuur in dosyne aansoeke in die vroeë […]
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‘Special Levies – by Johan Barkhuizen, candidate attorney, Coenraad Kukkuk Attorneys – 27.11.2017 Raising a special levy Both the Sectional Titles Act and the prescribed rules leave the decision to raise a special levy to the sole discretion of the trustees. The Act says a special contribution, “becomes due on the passing of a resolution […]
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This article was first published in the fourth-quarter 2013 edition of Personal Finance magazine. Living with a partner in a permanent relationship in which you share resources and expenses can take various forms under the law, depending on what steps you have taken to formalise the relationship. Sharing comes naturally in any close human […]
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– Rapport 10 Sept 2017 – Sien “Nukke”-berig Rapport 10 Sept 2017
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MBOMBELA – The investors of a house being built on Bazaruto Island View Estate (BIVE) in Vilankulos in Mozambique have little to show for the R5,5 million they have spent on their house. Lowvelder recently reported on the developer’s struggles to get the resort and holiday homes off the ground, and the questions raised about […]
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Many in sectional title schemes might be wondering whether current rules being used by their schemes remain in force now that the Sectional Title Schemes Management Act has come into effect. The answer is simple, if the developer or body corporate had implemented or changed any of their rules prior to 1 June 1988, then […]
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Pretoria – Legal trouble continues to pile up against Mandela The Opera producer and member of the AbaThembu royal family Unathi Mtirara, said to have pocketed over R2 million in funds meant to pay artists and others he contracted for the stage production in December last year. City lawyers Boshoff are handling a lawsuit for […]
Read more... Pretoria – A manhunt for Mandela The Opera mastermind and producer Unathi Mtirara has been launched by several individuals, a government department and a legal firm over missing money paid to him which he did not pay over to the artists. Mtirara has been missing for over a month. Former colleagues voiced suspicion he had […]
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By Tertius Maree A new era for sectional title schemes, in fact for ‘community schemes’ was introduced on 7 October 2016 with the publication (GN R1231 GG40335/7-10-2016) of the regulations for the Sectional Title Schemes Management Act 8 of 2011 and the Community Schemes Ombud Service Act 9 of 2011 (the Act), signalling also the […]
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Kaveel Singh, News24 Johannesburg – While South Africa came in for much criticism in Human Rights Watch’s latest world report, its progressive approach to gender issues was welcomed.”South Africa has a progressive Constitution that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and protects the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people,” […]
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Malison Ndau, Malawi’s government spokesperson, has said that ‘pastor of hate’, Steven Anderson setting up a church in the country “would not augur well for the people of Malawi” and that the country’s people “would not accept it”. “He would would not be received well here,” Ndau said. Humans rights activists have raised concerns around […]
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Anderson gained notoriety over his homophobic comments after the Orlando nightclub shooting and subsequent numerous anti-gay tirades. He planned to visit South Africa on a “soul winning mission”. However, local Abrie Viljoen, who is in the property business, Pretoria-based lawyer Coenie Kukkuk and Gay Radio SA’s Hendrik Baird would have none of it. On July […]
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Coenie & South Africa – 1 Steven Anderson & The Faithful Baptist Church – 0 So on my journey across Scandinavia, I had the amazing pleasure of meeting a lovely gentleman from South Africa. At first I was like ‘what is this guy saying’ as he was speaking so fast. I first met him outside […]
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Coenie Kukkuk (right) with client Hendrik Baird, station manager of Gay SA Radio, the firm’s client, and Minster Malusi Gigaba of Home Affairs, in 2016 during the successful Application to get hate-pastor Steven Anderson and his church banned from South Africa At the offices of the Minister of Home Affairs, Malusi Gigaba, during […]
Read more...Artists and guest house claim they were ripped off in Mandela opera scam A MANHUNT for Mandela The African Opera mastermind and producer Unathi Mtirara has been launched by several individuals, a government department and a legal firm over the missing money paid to him and which he did not pay to artists who featured […]
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Living with a partner in a permanent relationship in which you share resources and expenses can take various forms under the law, depending on what steps you have taken to formalise the relationship. Sharing comes naturally in any close human relationship, so for most couples the question of who owns what is not important while […]
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A Russian nationalist who launched an “anti-pedophilia” campaign that lured gay men with promises of sexual encounters, then filmed as the victims were harassed, beaten, assaulted, and made to “confess” their homosexuality, has reportedly fled Russia after state police raided his and his parents’ home in connection with a recent antigay attack. Former skinhead Maxim […]
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Keine 100 Tage mehr bis zum Beginn der Olympischen Winterspiele in Sotschi. Dass Schwule dort nicht willkommen sind, hat Präsident Wladimir Putin durch sein Anti-Homosexuellen-Gesetz unmissverständlich zum Ausdruck gebracht. Doch in welche Gefahr sie sich begeben, zeigt jetzt erneut ein abscheuliches Video einer russischen Neonazigruppe. Ein südafrikanischer Austauschstudent wurde in der Großstadt Belgorod Opfer des […]
Read more...I refer to ANC signing a “memorandum of understanding” with Putin’s violently homophobic United Russia party and wish to condemn in the strongest possible terms the signing of this pact. Putin’s party stands for everything that our constitution outright bans: discrimination against people on the basis of their sexual orientation and gender identity, gender discrimination, […]
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In der südafrikanischen Metropole Johannesburg wirbt ein riesiges Poster für die Wahl zum “Mr. Gay World 2012” im April. Die Werbetafel an einer viel befahrenen Schnellstraße ist 18 mal 4,50 Meter groß und zeigt die einheimischen Gewinner der “Mr. Gay South Africa”-Wahl. LGBT-Aktivisten bezeichneten die Aktion als “historisch”. In ganz Afrika sei noch nie eine […]
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Read more...Beeld and Die Burger Virginia Keppler, Antoinette Slabbert (Beeld) and Anesca Smith (Die Burger) Pretoria – “Pieces of wreckage and bodies lay strewn over a distance of 800m. There was no sign of life. “It wasn’t a pretty sight. They were friends and colleagues and people we knew,” said Juan Wolmarans, one of the first […]
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Die Suid-Afrikaanse ambassade in Libië het bevestig dat daar Suid-Afrikaners aan boord die vliegtuig was wat by die Tripoli-lughawe neergestort het. Volgens Eyewitness News is die presiese aantal Suid-Afrikaners wat aan boord die vlug was nog nie bekend nie. Volgens Beeld se inligting was daar minstens ses, maar dalk sewe Suid-Afrikaners aan boord. Een van […]
Read more...AN ATTORNEY has taken the Pan Africanist Youth Congress to the SA Human Rights Commission for making anti-homosexual statements. Attorney Coenraad Kukkuk and two others lodged the complaint at the SAHRC’s Mpumalanga office, they said yesterday. SAHRC Mpumalanga director Charles Kgoale said: “We view the hate speech charges seriously and have taken this matter to […]
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