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December and January have always been prime months for selling residential property in South Africa, and if you are a “Festive Season Seller”, here are two really important tips for you.

Here’s yet another reminder from our courts on the danger of not complying strictly with every provision in a property sale agreement. Don’t be like Douglas Adams and listen to the deadlines go whooshing by – missing a property sale deadline is a mistake, probably an expensive one.

Buying “plot and plan” in a residential complex allows you the freedom to build your own dream house in a secure environment, quite apart from providing what is likely to be sound long-term investment.

On Friday, 2 September 2022, the Minister of Home Affairs granted Zimbabwe Exemption Permit (ZEP) holders a further extension until 30 June 2023, to obtain alternative work permits/visas.

Minister of Home Affairs Aaron Motsoaledi says that the flexibility afforded to passport applications and collections in South Africa is being removed to protect the integrity of the document.

The bidding process for a visa and permit applications management tender worth R50 million for the Department of Home Affairs closed on 25 February 2022.

The Department of Home Affairs has extended operating times at front offices and ports of entry to ease congestion associated with the festive season.

The Department of Home Affairs has withdrawn their immigration directive on the Zimbabwean Exemption Permit (ZEP). Essentially, this means that Home Affairs has decided not to renew permits granted to more than 250 000 Zimbabweans in South Africa.

Home Affairs minister Aaron Motsoaledi says that the upgrade project to solve the problem of delays at Home Affairs offices around the country is currently delayed.

The Daily Maverick is reporting on frustrated South Africans who are having to endure long queues and wait times at Home Affairs departments across the country.