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Stellenbosch - Dalsig - Executive Home - R 7.1 m

Your search for peace and tranquility ends right here where you can experience the best of both worlds, with sprawling vineyards on your doorstep and urban amenities conveniently close by. Relaxing Executive family home. Home with extraordinary views and spacious rooms offering 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1 reception rooms and a single garage. Features • Reception Rooms: 1 • Bedrooms: 4 • Bathrooms: 3.5 • Interior Finishes/Features: o Tiled Flooring o Carpeted Flooring o Melamine Kitchen • Exterior Features: o Profiled Sheeting Roof o Boundary Fence o Plastered Walls o Aluminium Windows • Parking: Garage(s): 2 • General Features: o Family/TV Room o 2nd Family Room o Garden o Open Plan Kitchen o Scullery o Living Room o Patio Additional Details • Building Area Size: 475 m² • Direction: North East facing • Rates and Taxes: ZAR +-1500 per month Map (Click here to view map) (Click here to see more detail) (Click here to see video)

Steenser - Kelderhof - 3 Bedroom, 2 Bathroom - Family House

South Africa - Western Cape - Boland (Winelands) – Stellenbosch ZAR 1,260,000 Relaxing young family home. Home with extraordinary views and spacious rooms offering 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 1 reception rooms and a single garage. Features • Reception Rooms: 1 • Bedrooms: 3 • Bathrooms: 2 • Interior Finishes/Features: o Tiled Flooring o Carpeted Flooring o Melamine Kitchen • Exterior Features: o Profiled Sheeting Roof o Boundary Fence o Plastered Walls o Modular Brick Boundary o Aluminium Windows o Swartland External Doors • Parking: Garage(s): 1 • General Features: o Family/TV Room o Garden o Kitchen o Living Room o Patio Additional Details • Building Area Size: 135 m² • Direction: North facing • Rates and Taxes: ZAR 450 per per annum • Lat : 34° 2'25.05"S Long : 18°45'40.89"E If you have any further queries please feel free to contact me. Contact : Francois - +27 7 22 111 209 Email : ctccza@yahoo.com

Misconceptions about Quantity Surveyors

The article by John Crace in the Guardian titled “Who’d be a Quantity Surveyor” has certainly stirred Ethyl the Aardvark and even a few possums in the far Colonies Down under. The thrust of the article is that the quantity surveyor is responsible for all the time and cost (why not quality) ills of the construction industry. Some years ago an industry inquiry here reached a similarly ill informed conclusion in regards to disputes between the parties involved in building contracts. In that case just like your article there appears to be a few inaccuracies and a lack of understanding of the development process and the role of the various stakeholders. The underlying theme of your article is a lack of accuracy and accountability. On both counts the quantity surveying profession prides itself on those very attributes. It's interesting to note that as a profession we are probably on our own, or perhaps only in the company of accountants, in the fact that the accuracy of our work can