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KPMG South Africa to move Johannesburg head office from Parktown to Sandton

KPMG South Africa will relocate its Johannesburg head office from Parktown to Sandton next year, ending almost 30 years at its current premises, with the move scheduled for May.

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Cape Town short-term rental hosts face commercial rates under draft by-law

Cape Town has published a draft by-law requiring every short-term rental property to be registered, with homes let for 183 nights or more a year facing commercial property rates that can be more than three times the residential rate.

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Cape Town's abandoned Ritz Hotel set for revival with 44 apartments and a rebuilt hotel

Plans lodged with the City of Cape Town propose reviving the long-shuttered Ritz Hotel in Sea Point with 44 residential apartments, hotel suites, restaurants and wellness facilities; the application was advertised for public comment on September 18.

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Durban CBD traders press eThekwini for action as inner-city revival company takes shape

Long-established businesses in Durban's central business district say they are waiting for the eThekwini Municipality's planned Inner-City Development Company to deliver better services as the city centre continues to decline.

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Durban fire leaves more than 100 informal settlement residents homeless

More than 70 shacks were destroyed by fire at the Forman Road Extension informal settlement in Durban's Ward 25, leaving over 100 residents homeless and two people injured.

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Madonsela files WhatsApp evidence in court fight over Foxton's property estate

Former public protector Thuli Madonsela has placed family WhatsApp messages and funeral correspondence before the Johannesburg high court as she fights to be recognised as the late businessman Richard Foxton's spouse and to have his 2025 will declared invalid.

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South Africa asks SIU to investigate failed farm worker equity schemes

South Africa's Department of Land Reform and Rural Development has approached the Special Investigating Unit to probe farm worker equity schemes after nearly R700 million was paid to 89 schemes, most of which have failed, been sold off or cannot be traced.

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South Africa spends R600m maintaining MPs' and ministers' Cape Town homes, Parliament told

Taxpayers have paid R600 million over five years to maintain three parliamentary villages and ministers' official residences in Cape Town under a single public works contract, as Parliament moves to take over their management.

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300 Soweto families receive keys to new homes in Jabulani Parcel K

Gauteng Premier Panyaza Lesufi and other officials have handed over 300 completed homes to qualifying families in Jabulani, Soweto, in the second phase of allocations at the Jabulani Parcel K development.