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De Klerk Turner Inc Attorneys & Notaries De Klerk Turner Inc is a trusted law firm and notaries based in Cape Town, South Africa.

We specialize in litigation, estate administration, notarial services, property law, and legal consulting. Located in the city centre, we offer tailored legal solutions with a client-focused approach. Whether you need help with wills and trusts, administration of estates, antenuptial contracts, curatorships, evictions, or property disputes, our experienced attorneys are here to guide you. At De Klerk Turner Inc, we are committed to exceptional service and securing the best outcomes for our clients in Cape Town and surrounding areas.

Most people have met one kind of bond. The one over a house.There is another kind, and it has nothing to do with land.A ...
08/10/2026

Most people have met one kind of bond. The one over a house.

There is another kind, and it has nothing to do with land.

A notarial bond is registered over movable property. Equipment. Stock. Machinery. Vehicles. The things a business actually runs on rather than the building it runs in.

What separates it from an ordinary agreement is how it is signed. It has to be executed in front of a notary public, and it is then lodged for registration in the Deeds Office. It is not something two parties can sign between themselves over a table.

That is the same reason a notary turns up for an antenuptial contract. The attestation is not a formality added on top of the document — it is what gives the document its character.

We have a notary in this office, which means it is work we do rather than refer out.

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Most people have never had a reason to find out what a notary actually is. Here it is, briefly.It is not an attorney wit...
06/10/2026

Most people have never had a reason to find out what a notary actually is. Here it is, briefly.

It is not an attorney with a fancier stamp. It is a separate admission with its own examination, sat on top of the attorney's qualification. Plenty of firms do not have one.

Some documents are executed before a notary rather than simply signed — antenuptial contracts, notarial bonds, notarial leases, certain servitudes. The notary attests the document, and that attestation is what gives it its character.

Which is why, if your firm does not have one, you get sent across town to a stranger for half an afternoon, with your documents, at a time that suits them.

We have a notary public in-house. It is a small thing that turns out to matter on exactly the days you would rather it did not — getting married, securing a facility, dealing with an estate.

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If you have never instructed an attorney before, here is what to bring to the first meeting.The documents, in whatever s...
29/09/2026

If you have never instructed an attorney before, here is what to bring to the first meeting.

The documents, in whatever state they are in. The agreement, if there is one. The correspondence — all of it, including the messages you regret sending, especially those. A rough sequence of what happened and when, even if it is handwritten on the back of something else.

That is the whole list.

You do not need to organize it. You do not need to summarize it. You do not need to work out in advance which parts matter — that is the job, and we are better at it than you would expect, because we do it every week and you have done it once.

A lot of people delay a first appointment because they feel they should get their affairs in order first. It is completely understandable and it is exactly backwards. The tidying is not the hard part.

What slows a first meeting down is never disorganized papers. It is missing ones.

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Heritage Day, this Thursday.We practise from Lower Long Street, in a part of Cape Town where the courts, the Master's Of...
22/09/2026

Heritage Day, this Thursday.

We practise from Lower Long Street, in a part of Cape Town where the courts, the Master's Office and the Deeds Office are all within a walk of each other — and of us.

It is easy to treat that as an accident of where the office is. It is not. A great deal of what we do goes better because a person can walk in, in the same morning, and ask a question of someone's face rather than sending an email into a queue and waiting.

Heritage Day is a good moment to say that this city is not just where the firm is registered. It is how the firm works.

Wishing everyone a good Heritage Day — and a good long weekend to those taking one.

Here is a question we ask that catches people out.Not "do you have a will" — most people do. **Where is it, right now, a...
15/09/2026

Here is a question we ask that catches people out.

Not "do you have a will" — most people do. **Where is it, right now, and does anybody else know?**

The two answers we hear most often are "somewhere at home" and "I think the bank has it." Neither is much use to a family in the week after a death, when the original document is what has to go in and nobody can find it.

A will nobody can locate causes very much the same problem as no will at all — and it causes it at the worst possible moment, to people who are already dealing with enough.

It is a ten-minute problem to solve while you are alive and a considerable one to solve afterwards.

One practical option, and we will be straight about the condition attached to it: **where we are appointed as executor in the will, we hold the original in safe custody at no charge.** No storage fee, no annual anything. The reason we can do that is that we are the ones who will be winding the estate up, so the document needs to be with us in any event.

If that does not suit you, that is completely fine — but then tell somebody where it is. That is the part that actually matters.

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Please do not go and get anything certified.When someone dies and the estate has to be reported to the Master of the Hig...
08/09/2026

Please do not go and get anything certified.

When someone dies and the estate has to be reported to the Master of the High Court, certified copies are required — and every guide out there tells the family to go and have them made. A queue at a police station or the Post Office, in the worst week of your life, to solve a problem that is not yours to solve.

Bring us the originals instead. We have a notary public in-house. We make the copies and we certify them as the Master requires them, which also means what gets lodged is right the first time.

Nothing to arrange before you come. Nothing to organise. Just bring what you have.

One exception: the will has to be the signed original. Everything else, we handle.

If it would help to know what to gather, the checklist we give our own clients is on our website — free, nothing to fill in, and yours to pass on to anyone who needs it.

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"How long will this take?"Every client asks it. We will not answer it with a number.Not because litigation is a mystery ...
01/09/2026

"How long will this take?"

Every client asks it. We will not answer it with a number.

Not because litigation is a mystery — because we would not control the answer. The court's roll is the court's. The other side's tactics are theirs. Witnesses and experts move at their own pace.

An estimate we cannot enforce is worth nothing to you on the day it is missed. Worse, it becomes a second grievance on top of the one you came in with.

Here is what we will commit to instead. We prepare every matter as if it will be litigated. We tell you where you stand, in language you can act on. We follow up persistently, which is less glamorous than a promise and considerably more useful.

And where a matter genuinely demands it, we mobilise same-day.

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Working from an estate checklist that says R125,000?It is wrong — and it has been wrong since 2014.Where a deceased esta...
25/08/2026

Working from an estate checklist that says R125,000?

It is wrong — and it has been wrong since 2014.

Where a deceased estate falls under a set value, the Master of the High Court can take a lighter route: no letters of executorship, directions instead, and usually a Master's Representative rather than an executor.

That value is R250,000. It was raised from R125,000 by GNR 920, published in Government Gazette 38238 on 24 November 2014, and it applies where the death occurred on or after that date. More than a decade later, checklists quoting the old figure are still doing the rounds — including some official ones.

If you are reporting an estate, check the figure you are working from. If it says R125,000, it is out of date.

Ours says R250,000. It is the checklist we give our own clients, it is on our website, and there is nothing to fill in.

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Seen R125,000 on a form recently? Tell us where — we are keeping track.

When someone passes away, the estate must be reported to the Master of the High Court promptly. Late reporting causes de...
18/08/2026

When someone passes away, the estate must be reported to the Master of the High Court promptly. Late reporting causes delays — and the longer you wait, the more complicated things get.
There are specific documents and forms required, and getting them right the first time avoids setbacks.

Take a look at our guide to assist you.
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Business rescue and liquidation are both court proceedings for companies in financial trouble — but they go in opposite ...
11/08/2026

Business rescue and liquidation are both court proceedings for companies in financial trouble — but they go in opposite directions.
Business rescue aims to save the company. Liquidation winds it up.
The choice depends on whether the company can realistically be rescued. Getting that assessment right — and early — is critical.
Know a business owner going through a tough time? Share this — it might help them understand their options.
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Suite 4, 12th Floor, 35 Lower Long Street
Cape Town
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Monday 08:00 - 16:30
Tuesday 08:00 - 16:30
Wednesday 08:00 - 16:30
Thursday 08:00 - 16:30
Friday 08:00 - 16:30

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