Burden & Swart Attorneys
Legal in Pretoria

Burden & Swart Attorneys specialise in litigation, commercial, debt collection, conveyancing and notarial matters.

We live by the promise to offer clients service excellence. Skilled and dedicated personnel will render a professional legal service. We have an honest and emphatic approach towards our clients. Our creative team delivers a quality, unbiased and equitable service. We take pride on building long-term professional relationships with our clients and our comprehensive reports and interaction keep our clients constantly and fully informed of the status of legal and transfer matters. Losing a loved-one is an emotionally-challenging and traumatic time and this is when trustworthy legal support can ease the burden. With combined knowledge and experience of more than 60 years, Burden Swart & Botha Attorneys has the skills and expertise to assist you with a variety of civil litigation services. Burden Swart & Botha Attorneys’ Notary, Soekie Riekert-Botha, has a wealth of experience and can assist you with the best advice pertaining to ante-nuptial contract. The most thoughtful gift to leave for your loved ones, is a well drafted and executable Will. Equally important is to determine whether the estate will have liquidity at time of death. Burden, Swart & Botha Attorneys employ a dynamic range of attorneys who are all fully qualified to deal with all legal matters pertaining to your case in a personal & professional manner. During 1981 he graduated with his BA-Law degree at the University of Stellenbosch. Andrew continued his studies at Potchefstroom University and completed his LLB degree in After completion of his articleship at Harvey Mostert Attorneys in Witbank, he relocated to Pretoria. As senior partner Andrew has exceptional experience in commercial law and general litigation. She completed her B.Proc-degree in 1992 at the University of Pretoria. In 1993 she commenced her articles at Andrew Burden Attorneys. She was admitted as an Attorney and Conveyancer in 1995 and continued at the firm as a Professional Assistant. She became a partner at Andrew Burden Attorneys in Leonora established the conveyancing department at the firm and through her dedication, hard work and managerial skills built the conveyancing department into an exceptional and very successful department. She specializes in Transfer of ownership in land, Registration and Cancellation of Mortgage Bonds, Establishment of townships, Sectional title developments, Opening of Sectional Title Schemes, Consolidation and Subdivision of land and Registration of Servitutes. In the year 2000 she completed her LLB-degree and advanced certificate in Child Law. She completed her articles during 2002 at Andrew Burden Attorneys and became partner in Soekie heads the very successful collection department which boasts with an exceptional high success rate with the recovery of debt. Due to her excellent managerial skills, the department has expanded since she joined as partner. She also specializes in divorce and maintenance matters due to her advance qualification in child law. She is an admitted notary and attends to all the notarial contracts, including antenuptual agreements.