online short course
REGISTER BY
17 January 2025
COURSE STARTS
20 January 2025
COURSE FEE
R11,400
The UCT Home Owners Association Management online short course, developed by Auren Freitas dos Santos and convened by Ané de Klerk, is a 8-week short course covering the legal requirements and practical guidelines to manage a home owners’ association effectively.
This is the only short course on the subject that awards those who successfully complete it with a digital certificate issued by Africa’s top tertiary education institution, the University of Cape Town.
Whether you are an estate manager, a managing agent, director of a HOA registered as a non-profit company, trustee of a HOA created in terms of our Common Law, an owner of property situated within a home owners’ association or someone considering developing schemes of this nature, the UCT Home Owners Association Management online short course will empower you with knowledge on relevant subject matters such as the legal frameworks governing home owners’ associations, their management structures, meetings, financial obligations and dispute resolution within these associations.
Designed to accommodate tight schedules, our courses offer the flexibility and convenience to study anywhere, any time whilst receiving a high level of personalised support from the subject expert and course coordinator. There is no need to be intimidated by learning online – our online learning model couldn’t be more simple and user-friendly.
Ready to register, or interested in finding out more? Use the links above or email: courses@theadvisory.co.za and we will get in touch with you.
This course consists of 6 (six) modules, covering the following topics:
1. Introduction to Home Owners’ Associations
Focusing on the history of home owners’ associations in South Africa, the types of home owners’ associations most commonly found in practice and the legal framework governing these types of community schemes.
2. The Executive Committee of a Home Owners’ Association
Focusing on the fiduciary duties of the executive committee, their powers and functions, requirements for office, nomination, election, replacement and removal and meetings. This module also covers reimbursement, remuneration, indemnification and liability of executives.
3. The Members of a Home Owners’ Association
Focusing on eligibility, acquisition and termination of membership and the rights and obligations of members. This module also covers a wide range of aspects concerning general meetings including notices, quorum, agendas, proxies and voting.
4. Administrative Management of a Home Owners’ Association
Focusing on the different types of governance documentation applicable to home owners’ associations and the enforcement thereof both internally and via the Community Schemes Ombud Service. This module also covers practical aspects relating to record keeping, annual returns, contract management and the dissolution and winding up of home owners’ associations. A popular topic covered in this module relates to the practical implementation of the Promotion of Access to Information Act (PAIA) and the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).
5. Financial Management of a Home Owners’ Association
Focusing on a budgeting, financial planning, levy collection, fund management, financial reporting, insurance and compliance with legal and regulatory standards.
6. Physical Management of a Home Owners’ Association
Focusing on the control and maintenance of common property and private properties. This module also covers external factors regulating the management of property in home owners’ associations including conditions of approval of subdivision, site development plans, operational environmental management plans and development management schemes.
Ané de Klerk
Available to you on the online portal for the full duration of the course, is Ané – an admitted Attorney of the High Court who completed her BA LLB at the University of Stellenbosch before joining a leading Cape Town based law firm’s sectional title developments division. She went on to gain invaluable practical experience as a Property Portfolio Manager at one of the country’s biggest managing agencies before joining a specialist community schemes firm as a legal consultant. She has been a guest lecturer at, and online course instructor in association with, the University of Cape Town since 2018. Today, as director and head of The Advisory’s Courses division, her focus is legal education, the training of community scheme roleplayers by way of virtual and in-person workshops and seminars tailored to community schemes management.