Our Services
We are Offering the Quality Services to Our Clients
The following is a summary, though not exhaustive, of the services we offer to clients, as well as the procedure we will undertake in relation to the fields in which clients may require assistance:
1. Labour and Employment Law
We aim at the sensible management and avoidance of disputes, and we focus on the following areas:
- Conducting investigations and preparing investigation reports.
- Formulating charges.
- Prosecuting, initiating, or leading evidence in internal disciplinary hearings.
- Presiding over internal disciplinary hearings.
- Attending arbitration at CCMA (Commission for Conciliation, Mediation, and Arbitration) and Bargaining Councils.
- Attending reviews and appeals at Labour Courts.
- Facilitating skills and development laws.
- Providing training on the enforcement charter of the Employment Equity Act.
- Providing training on incapacity dismissals.
- Providing training on the new amendments of the Labour Relations Act.
- Offering legal opinions and day-to-day legal advice.
- Preparation of reports.
- Draughting employment-related contracts.
- Handling employment issues arising from client restructuring.
- Managing retrenchments.
- Addressing strikes.
- Resolving disputes related to unfair labour practises, discrimination, occupational health and safety, social security, basic conditions of employment, pension funds, and restraints of trade.
- Ensuring compliance with all relevant employment law legislation.
Commercial and Contract Law
We offer a full range of expert services in all aspects of corporate and commercial law, which include the following:
- Takeovers and sale of businesses.
- Formation and structuring of companies, close corporations, partnerships, and joint ventures.
- Legal due diligence.
- Transaction advisory services for commercial transactions.
- Draughting and reviewing various types of commercial contracts.
- Formation and administration of trusts.
- Formulation and administration of supply chain management policies.
- Advice on Public Finance Management Act (PFMA), Municipal Finance Management Act (MFMA), Municipal Structures Act, and related regulations.
- Draughting of regulations.
- Draughting of by-laws.
Commercial and Civil Litigation
We will represent clients in all matters that involve actual or potential court hearings, including trials, applications, or other hearings in the High Court, Magistrates’ Courts, or other tribunals. Our services cover a wide range of areas, including:
- Tender-related disputes and urgent interdicts.
- Commercial disputes.
- Debt collections.
- Evictions.
- Hire purchase and instalment sale repossessions.
- Insolvency, winding up, and judicial management proceedings, including offers of compromise and schemes of arrangement.
- Landlord and tenant disputes.
- Long and short-term insurance disputes.
- Malpractice and professional indemnity suits.
- Mortgage bond foreclosures.
- Pension fund disputes.
- The perfection of security held under notarial bonds.
Property and Conveyancing
Our property and conveyancing team specializes in providing services for the acquisition and disposal of residential, commercial, and industrial properties. We assist clients with various aspects, including:
- Registration of property transfers.
- Bond registration and cancellations.
- Handling sectional title schemes, both existing and in development.
- Township development, including advice on property usage and related matters.
- Registration of mortgage bonds for property developments and private acquisitions.
- Town planning and conceptualization of suitable structures for property development.
- Registration of servitudes.
Debt Collection
On Debt Collection, the firm offers the following services:-
- Collection of outstanding rates; water and electricity accounts;
- Collection of monies due as a result of on unpaid motor vehicle finances
- Collections of monies due as a result of personal and/or business loans
- Collection of monies due as a result of unpaid morgante bonds and foreclosures
- Collection of monies due as a result of unpaid rentals
- Collection of monies erroneously paid or over paid to service providers;
- Collection of monies paid by officials of the Municipality where it is found that such payments amounted to irregular, fruitless and wasteful expenditure
- Attachment and freezing of employees’ pension benefits who are implicated in fraud, corruption, money laundering, etc
Contract Risk Compliance and Management
Mhlanga Inc. also offer services to clients in respect of contract risk compliance and management, which the firm specializes in. This involves assisting client in:
- Identification, collection and centralization of all contracts
- Developing and implementing a contract register
- Developing and implementing a contract filing system
- Development and documentation of contract management processes and procedures
- Creation of a contract data-base on all collected contracts
- Training of all personnel on development processes
- Assessment of current situation facing clients in respect of contract governance management
- Assessment of the relationship between client and its service providers
- Appointment and delegation of powers and functions of client to third parties
- Assessment and advice on the appropriate legal model that will be reflective of the needs of client, for example a specific focus on ensuring that the supply chain department is complying with the relevant policies and legal prescripts
- Advice on the necessary amendments to client’s policies that will improve client’s ability to function effectively to be able to carry out its mandate to the public
- Perusal of all legal documentation relevant to client
- Draughting relevant documents to give effect to advice provided.
Forensic Investigation
- Analysing accident scene
- Examining documentary and digital evidence
- Reviewing the relevant documentation, legislative prescripts, policies and regulations
- Imaging and sampling of digital devices
- Interviewing implicated persons
- Conducting various searches on our programmes
- Forensic auditing to identify implicated persons
- Funds flow analysis
- Draughting an investigation report with findings and recommendations
- Presenting report to client
- Testifying in a disciplinary hearing and/or court
- Assisting client to open criminal cases, where applicable
- Assisting client to recover loss from implicated persons, where applicable