The threat of land cartels still looms large in sector

Land transactions are even at the best of times, a maze that one needs to navigate carefully. The safest thing to do is get a lawyer to go through the labyrinth for you.

In come the cartels and the previous complicated maze becomes an impenetrable swamp littered with corruption, forgeries, outright theft and even murder. You would think that conveyancers (property lawyers) have it easy; they are learned, after all.