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One of the many benefits of living in a sectional title scheme is the advantage of seeing maintenance and repairs being done without you needing to organise it yourself or even knowing what is being done and why. Most owners…
Correct extinguisher for each class of fire and the limitation and dangers of the fire type Last month Part 2 of this series on Fire Safety and Prevention by CIA Insurers dealt with fire classification. This month in Part 3…
#WhitfieldsCares
Whitfields endeavours to play its part in helping those less fortunate, by offering financial support to organizations who strive to make South…
Whitfields Celebrates Women
04 Aug 2023
“Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate.
Community Schemes Ombud Service CSOS court appeal process
03 Oct 2022
The CSOS is immune from a cost order if party to a court appeal process that goes against…
CIA INSURERS – FireWise
In Part 1 of this series CIA Insurers will look at handheld portable fire extinguishers.
Who does what? The roles and responsibilities of the Trustees, Managing Agents and CSOS. Trustees: Trustees are in essence, the decision makers. Quite peculiarly, the relevant legislation does not provide a definition for a trustee however the Oxford Dictionary states:…
Every owner has the right to select their own estate agent to sell their property when the time comes! Some years ago, there was a growing trend for estate agents to offer “rewards” to a scheme, in order to be…
Cybercrime in South Africa is becoming more and more prevalent as hackers become more sophisticated with a resultant spike in cyberattacks on all fronts. In South Africa, when it comes to cyber threats, internet users are often not sufficiently technically…
A Community Scheme has several functions, but its primary responsibilities can be condensed into the following:
Financial Management:
One of a Scheme’s crucial…