{"id":14979,"date":"2026-09-01T00:15:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=14979"},"modified":"2026-09-01T00:15:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:15:06","slug":"sapoa-boss-on-the-cape-town-rates-battle-and-saving-joburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/?p=14979","title":{"rendered":"Sapoa boss on the Cape Town rates battle and saving Joburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to The Property Pod, South Africa\u2019s premier property investor podcast.<\/p>\n<p>This weekly Moneyweb show features leaders in the local real estate sector sharing insights on hot button issues, trends, opportunities, new developments and more. The pod is also now available as a video on our YouTube channel, MoneywebTV.<\/p>\n<p>An organisation that has been a key part of SA\u2019s commercial property industry \u2013 and a major advocate on crucial issues affecting the sector for six decades \u2013 is the South African Property Owners Association (Sapoa).<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>It is one of the oldest property industry bodies in the country, and will mark its milestone 60th year at its annual Sapoa Convention at Sun City at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>CEO Neil Gopal has been with the organisation for more than a third of that time, some 23 years.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s been on the podcast a few times, but with this being a landmark year and Sapoa being in the news taking on the City of Cape Town in a major rates battle over the past year, we have him on again to talk about this and more.<\/p>\n<p>Read\/listen:<br \/>Is Joburg too big to fail?<br \/>Business wants to help City of Joburg, but after the elections<br \/>SA\u2019s new growth push targets 1m jobs<br \/>Sapoa challenges Mangaung valuation-linked tariff in court<br \/>Cape Town accepts court ruling on rates-linked tariffs<br \/>Court rules Cape Town value-based tariffs and cleaning levy unlawful<br \/>Sapoa Convention: Hear from the CEO, president and Durban Chamber boss<\/p>\n<p>Gopal speaks about his time at Sapoa, why the organisation still matters, its contribution to talent development and empowerment in the property sector, and why it\u2019s not a question of whether City of Joburg can be saved. He says it must be saved.<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/p>\n<p>CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>You can also listen to this podcast on iono.fm here.<\/p>\n<p>* You can listen to the full podcast above or download it from\u00a0iono,\u00a0Spotify\u00a0or\u00a0Apple Podcasts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                        #Sapoa #boss #Cape #Town #rates #battle #saving #Joburg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to The Property Pod, South Africa\u2019s premier property investor podcast. This weekly Moneyweb show&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2362,1034,2798,1971,2152,12403,239,2799],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stock999.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}