Property Flash week in review: Results shine, Tongaat bows out and Joburg’s vote looms large
October 16 2026 13:10 SOUTH AFRICA If one theme ran through the stories Property Flash published this week, it was the gap between the health of South Africa’s listed property sector and the state of the cities it operates in. Reits are reporting their best numbers in years, while Johannesburg heads into a municipal election […]
Exchange Control changes in play, now what?
October 15 2026 12:30 JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA A guest article by Bashier Adam, Tax Director, Nexia SAB&T Most financially active South Africans know the basics: the Single Discretionary Allowance (SDA) doubled to R2m in April, trust-to-trust offshore distributions are now permissible, and other thresholds moved. The Reserve Bank issued nine circulars on 8 April 2026. […]
REVIEW OF THE SA ECONOMY AND THE UPCOMING MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
October 12 2026 18:00 Guest article by Bashier Adam, Tax Director, Nexia SAB&T Let us start with the numbers that do not make it into the investor roadshow presentations. South Africa’s official unemployment rate reached 33.6% in the second quarter of 2026, its highest level since August 2022, with 8.5-million not having a job. The […]
Getting Price & Paperwork Right for Multi-National Entities
October 12 2026 17:45 This is a guest article by Amy Moutinho, Tax Advisor, Nexia SAB&T For businesses operating across borders, the critical question is not simply whether a related-party transaction has a sound commercial rationale. It is whether the business can demonstrate that the terms reflect the arm’s length principle and can substantiate how […]
Joburg’s Likely Result and the Case for an ANC–DA Coalition
October 12 2026 17:30 JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA An opinion piece by Alistair Anderson No party is likely to win Johannesburg outright on 4 November, and the city’s best hope for a stable government might just be a coalition between its two largest parties: the ANC and the DA. That is an uncomfortable idea for many […]
Cape Town’s unfinished bridges to be completed at last, unlocking 15ha of prime Foreshore land for a new neighbourhood
October 8 2026 16:10 CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA One of Cape Town’s most famous piece of unfinished business is finally set to be completed. Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis has unveiled the City’s plans to finish the Foreshore’s incomplete elevated freeways, almost 50 years after construction stopped in 1977. The Foreshore Precinct Project will see the so-called […]
SARS already knows: The third-party data behind your 2026 tax return
October 5 2026 16:15 CENTURION, SOUTH AFRICA This is a guest article by Margaret Smith, Tax Manager, Nexia SAB&T Long before a taxpayer opens eFiling, SARS has usually already received most of the numbers that will appear on the return. Employers, banks, medical schemes, retirement funds, and investment platforms are legally required to report directly […]
Silly BEE law for property practitioners finally scrapped
September 28 2026 22:00 SOUTH AFRICA The Property Practitioners Regulatory Authority (PPRA) has officially confirmed that it will no longer require a BEE certificate to issue Fidelity Fund Certificates (FFCs) to property practitioners. This follows a High Court ruling in early September that declared provisions of the Property Practitioners Act (PPA) unconstitutional and set them […]
Housing developer Blok Calls On Capetonians to join Annual Sea Point Beach clean-up
September 4 2026 15:00 Blok, in collaboration with Pristine Earth Collective and Statistics South Africa, along with their Neighbourhood Heroes, is inviting residents and visitors to help restore Sea Point’s coastline during its fourth annual Blok Spring Clean. The community clean-up will take place at Broken Bath Beach, to the right of the Sea Point Pavilion, from 9am […]
Smart money is buying where governance is broken but buildings aren’t
August 15 2026 11:30 JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA Johannesburg’s commercial property market is being priced by postal code rather than by asset, according to new Gmaven research. Gmaven is a company behind one of Africa’s largest commercial property databases, and has compared more than 25 700 properties and over 1 500 high-value transactions made across Cape […]