The fee menu · effective 2 October 2026
What each engagement costs, or how its price is set, published before you ask.
An interested board, supply-chain office or funder should be able to put a figure next to a scope without booking a meeting to get it. Where the scope is fixed, the figure is here. Where the price depends on the size of the job, the row says so, and a written quotation follows a free thirty-minute scoping call. Every row opens the page that explains the scope behind it.
The menu
Nine service lines, and how each is priced.
Every fee is fixed and agreed in writing before work starts, and is invoiced only after delivery. Fees are in South African Rand. No VAT is added; the company is not registered for it. Every row has its own anchor, so an email or a post can point at a single line.
| Engagement | Fee | Who buys it |
|---|---|---|
| 01 · Legislative & regulatory drafting | ||
| Rules, regulations, codes and subordinate legislation#fee-subordinate | Quoted per instrument | Statutory councils, professional bodies, regulators and organs of state |
| Regulatory framework review#fee-framework-review | Quoted on scope | Councils and professional bodies whose rules have aged out |
| Consultation, gazetting and ministerial reporting support#fee-consultation | Quoted on scope | Organs of state running a public process |
| 02 · Legal opinions | ||
| Formal written legal opinion#fee-opinion | Quoted on scope | Boards, councils and executives needing a defensible written answer |
| Statutory and rule interpretation#fee-interpretation | Quoted on scope | Councils and regulators testing whether a step is within their mandate |
| Second opinion and opinion review#fee-second-opinion | Quoted on scope | Boards that have an opinion and a doubt |
| 03 · Policy drafting | ||
| Single policy instrument, drafted to your framework#fee-policy | from R4 500 | Any organisation adopting or replacing a policy |
| Policy suite: governance, finance, information and people#fee-policysuite | Quoted on scope | Organisations building or rebuilding a full policy framework |
| Policy review and written advice#fee-policyreview | R3 500 | Anyone holding a policy they did not draft |
| 04 · Contracts and agreements | ||
| Single contract or agreement#fee-single | from R4 500 | Any business |
| Negotiated commercial agreement#fee-negotiated | from R7 500 | Businesses contracting at scale |
| Contract suite for a business#fee-suite | Quoted on scope | Companies standardising how they contract |
| Contract review and written advice#fee-review | R3 500 | Anyone handed a contract they did not draft |
| 05 · POPIA, PAIA and information governance | ||
| POPIA readiness: non-profit or small organisation#fee-popia-npo | R12 000 | NPOs and small organisations |
| POPIA remediation: public entity#fee-popia-pe | Quoted on scope | Entities facing an enforcement notice or a complaint |
| PAIA section 51 manual#fee-paia-manual | Included, or quoted separately | Every private and public body that holds records |
| 06 · Regulatory and compliance strategy | ||
| Regulatory perimeter memorandum#fee-perimeter | R11 500 | Businesses that need to know which statutes and regulators actually apply |
| Compliance universe and calendar#fee-universe | Quoted on scope | Public entities and regulated businesses |
| AML / FICA Compliance Programme#fee-fica | from R22 500 | Accountable institutions under the FIC Act |
| FIC programme review and Directive 12 submission check#fee-fica-review | R7 500 | Accountable institutions that already have a programme |
| Whistleblowing & Ethics Framework#fee-ethics | R13 000 | Public entities, NPOs and mid-size employers |
| 07 · Workplace and conduct | ||
| Independent disciplinary chairing#fee-chair | R6 000 per hearing day + R2 000 | Employers needing an independent presiding officer |
| Professional-conduct inquiry: presiding or prosecuting#fee-inquiry | Quoted per inquiry | Statutory councils and professional bodies |
| CCMA strategy, charge drafting and process support#fee-ccma | Quoted on scope | Employers preparing for or recovering from a CCMA matter |
| Employment instruments and workplace policies#fee-employment | from R4 500 | Any employer |
| 08 · Company secretarial | ||
| Outsourced company secretary#fee-cosec | Quoted on scope | Small companies, NPOs and funds, billed monthly in arrears |
| Board or committee meeting support#fee-meeting | R6 000 per meeting | Organisations needing a secretariat only when they meet |
| CIPC Governance Hygiene Pack#fee-cipc | R7 500 | Small companies and NPOs behind on statutory housekeeping |
| Exco governance support#fee-exco | Quoted on scope | Growing companies, SME-finance and fintech businesses whose executive committee needs a framework |
| 09 · Governance and board advisory | ||
| Delegations of Authority framework#fee-doa | from R20 000 | Public entities, councils, funds and entities under administration |
| Governance & Compliance Health-Check#fee-healthcheck | R14 000 | NPOs, councils, SMEs and funded companies |
| Governance Instrument Audit#fee-audit | R10 000 | Councils and public entities before a board review; the smallest useful first engagement |
| King V Transition Pack#fee-kingv | from R18 000 | Boards moving from King IV to King V |
| Board charters & committee terms of reference#fee-charters | from R11 500 | Any board reconstituting or reviewing its committees |
| Growth companies | ||
| Post-raise Governance Pack#fee-postraise | Quoted on scope | Seed and Series A companies, and fund portfolios |
| Fintech Compliance & Governance Pack#fee-fintech | Quoted on scope | Fintech and SME-finance platforms |
How the practice prices work. Hourly billing asks a client to buy something whose price is unknown until it is finished, from someone whose incentive is for it to take longer. Where the work can be defined in advance, it is priced in advance. Where it genuinely cannot (an unfolding dispute, an open-ended advisory instruction, a negotiation whose length the other side controls), the work is quoted at an hourly rate stated in the engagement letter, with an estimated range and an undertaking to report before that range is exceeded. If the scope changes, the change is quoted and approved in writing before anything is done. The company does not accept retainers or deposits and operates no trust account: you are invoiced for work already delivered. And because the company is not registered for VAT, no VAT is added to any figure above; for a smaller buyer that is a real saving against a VAT-registered supplier quoting the same number. Registered non-profit organisations are charged reduced fees, and a limited amount of work is done pro bono each year.
What is not on this menu. Reserved legal work. The company does not appear in court, does not litigate, does not do conveyancing or notarial work, does not administer estates, and holds no Fidelity Fund certificate and no trust account. No accredited or credit-bearing training is offered, and no audit or assurance work is done. Where a matter needs any of those, we say so at the outset and refer it to a practising firm.
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