During May 1991 he joined Hill McHardy and Herbst, a Bloemfontein attorney practice as an article clerk. During his articles he registered for the the LL.B. degree and obtained same in December 1992 and was presented with his LL.B. certificate on the 19th March 1993.

He was admitted as a practicing attorney on the 28th day of October 1993 in the Supreme Court of South Africa, Orange Free State, with right of appearance in the Supreme Court. He acted as a director at Hill McHardy and Herbst and was admitted as a conveyancer in January 2002. On the 1st of August 2005 he joined Geldenhuyse Inc. and became a director in 2006. Gerhard is a hardworking, dedicated and focused practitioner with an end result driven personality. With 25 years of experience in most of the major fields of the law he now mostly specializes in estate planning, administration of estates, contractual and commercial law, property law and conveyancing.

Riette joined Geldenhuys & Jonker in November 2022 and has over 20 years’ experience attending to Debt collections & Litigation Matters. She is responsible for typing legal documents and pleadings, pertaining to Magistrate’s Court litigation and is able to deal with debt collection extensively and am accustomed to dicta phone typing and also often consulting with clients. Riette is a hard working individual ready to assist in any way possible.

Laetitia Opperman started her career at Geldenhuys Jonker Inc, Vredenburg on 1 July 2021 with 28 years conveyancing experience, and specialises in Conveyancing, which includes:

• Registration of property transfers as well as registration of bonds for Nedbank and Absa Bank;
• Property developments;
• Estate Late transfers;
• Notarial Deeds and Servitudes;
• Drafting of all Contracts, relating to:
  Property;
• Sale of businesses and;
• Correspondent transactions including Transfers and Bonds.
• Consultations with clients and attending to signature of all transfer documents, bond documents, all Contracts and Correspondents’ documents (being transfer and bond documents).

Petro joined Geldenhuys & Jonker Inc. in June 2017 as receptionist and have since become secretary to Mr Hennie Le Roux attending to Litigation, Collections, Criminal matters and all other required legal secretary duties.

In 2014 she moved to the West Coast / Western Cape where she joined a law firm in Vredenburg and enrolled to study through UNISA in 2015 while working full-time. She simultaneously entered into and registered a five year articles of clerkship contract with the former Cape Law Society. During the course of 2018 / 2019 she successfully wrote and passed her admission exams, completed her LLB degree through UNISA and also sat and passed her conveyancing examination in September 2019.

Furthermore, she continued to write and pass her notary exams through the course of November 2020. Christa is now an admitted attorney, conveyancer and notary public and will continue her career at the Langebaan office of Geldenhuys & Jonker Attorneys.

Louise joined Geldenhuys & Jonker Inc. during 2019. Through the course of February 2023 she started at the Langebaan office and is the welcoming face and voice of the firm that keeps clients connected with the rest of the Langebaan team