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Brief history of our team

Jansen Snyman - Founder Director

Jansen Snyman grew up in Bloemfontein and moved to Johannesburg in 1986, after serving articles in Bloemfontein and George.

He became a director in a well-known law firm in 1988 and in the late '80's, early 90's acted on behalf of the local councils of the then Greater Soweto, in the process of converting leasehold to freehold, to provide ownership of property in those areas to the individual citizens.

Jansen has always had a passion for property and in 1995 became a founder director of Snymans Incorporated.

His main attributes include the following:

  • Shared dedication to property
  • Specialist in property law offering his clients a depth of expert knowledge
  • He is approachable and quality service orientated


Under his guidance Snymans became a well-known, preferred property -law firm.

At the beginning of 2010, Jansen moved his base to the Fourways  area when he opened up and manages a new office for Snymans Inc

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Roy Kapp - Director

Roy was born in Uitenhage (Port Elizabeth) and lived virtually everywhere. During primary school, they moved to Namibia. Most of his high school years he spent at Delportshoop High School in the Northern Cape.

He completed his studies at Bloemfontein and finished his LLB at RAU in 1994

He worked in the Deeds Office for a couple of years and started on his own in 1995. He joined Snymans Incorporated soon after.

Roy is the director at the Krugersdorp Office where the main focus is transfers.

He is well known for:

  • Maintaining close relationships with his clients

  • His expert knowledge of property law

  • Making his knowledge readily available to his clients through his approachable manner

 

Roy is married to Leona and they have 2 boys. He enjoys cycling and the outdoors.

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Mariette van Zyl - Associate Director - Operations Manager

Mariette grew up in Pretoria and matriculated in 1998 at Akasia High School. She finished her LLB at the University of Pretoria and did her articles during which time her main focus was on debt collection and sequestration in the Sectional Title field.

She also gained experience in other fields such as Magistrates Court and High Court litigation and property law.

Mariette was admitted as an attorney and conveyancer in 2004 and started with Snymans in 2005 where she and her team currently specialize in the following:

  • Townships and township establishment, proclamation and transfers to end users

  • Opening of Sectional Title registers, conversions to Sectional Title and transfers to end users

  • Subdivision and Consolidation of erven, and subsequent transfers to end users

Mariette enjoys the outdoors and reading and a good movie. She also enjoys socialising with special friends. She is also an admitted Notary.

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Diaan Van Wyk - Associate Director

Diaan matriculated at Roodepoort High School in 1999 and completed his LLB studies at the University of Johannesburg. He was admitted as an Attorney and Conveyancer in 2008.  He also completed a diploma in the Drafting and Interpretation of contracts in 2010. Throughout his Secondary, Tertiary and career he has showed remarkable leadership skills and innovative approaches to both life and business.

Diaan is currently heading the Centurion office. Under his leadership it has grown from being a satellite office to being a successful, established office in less than five years.  He is responsible for the marketing, administration and overall management of this office.

Diaan has a passion for sport and the outdoors and his sens of adventure is evidence of his zest for life.  His dedicated involvement with Gauteng Cricket has made him a beloved figure as player and organizer.

Diaan is a positive and hardworking young man who believes that success is at the fingertips of everyone, but only those who desire it the most will obtain it! He lives by the motto .. You are who you are because of the books you read, places you travel to and the people you spend time with!!

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Clive Smith - Associate Director

Clive is a born and bred “Joburger” and matriculated at Northcliff High School.

He completed his studies at the University of Johannesburg (formerly RAU) including a BA Law Degree with a major in Psychology, his LLB degree and a post-graduate qualification in Sports Law.

Also a serious sportsman, he has played cricket abroad. Diaan and Clive incidentally have played in many of the same teams over the years which has now extended to their professional careers at Snymans Inc.

Clive currently heads up the Randburg office. He focuses on the management of the office as well as embarking on marketing, training and arbitration activities.

He is an admitted Attorney, Notary and Conveyancer.

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Armand Coetzee – Associate:

Armand Coetzee was born in Pretoria, but grew up in Bloemfontein where he matriculated at Grey College in 1997.

He obtained his B.Com Law Degree in 2000 and his LLB Degree in 2002 from the University of the Free State, during which time he finished his articles at Honey Attorneys. In 2003 he moved to Johannesburg and commenced work at Moodie and Robertson Attorneys. In 2005 he was admitted as a Conveyancer and Notary Public.

He currently heads up the Krugersdorp Branch.

Apart from conveyancing, Armand also has experience in litigation, drafting and reviewing of contracts, commercial law and collections.

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