Empowerment, transformation, and collaboration: These are some of the themes that emerged at the annual convention of the South African Institute of Black Property Practitioners, which took place on 2 and 3 November.

The cost of the Gautrain Rapid Rail Link has shot up by R300m because of a spike in the country’s inflation in the past couple of years.

Around 150 guests including government and media set off from Midrand on the first trip aboard the rapid-moving Gautrain, whose arrival could transform the transport industry.

THE Gauteng government has vowed to clamp down on illegal squatters and "shack farmers" in a bid to slow the increase in the mushrooming of informal settlements in the province, it emerged at a briefing yesterday.