Born and bred in Rustenburg, She matriculated in 1983 from Afrikaans Hoër Meisieskool, she completed her BA LLB degree at Stellenbosch in 1988 and established her first lawyers' firm in 1991 after being admitted as an attorney and conveyancer.
During a seven year period she managed to serve on all four major banks' mortgage registration panels and attended to general conveyancing including property development registrations for various property developers, until she sold her first legal practice, just to start afresh 3 years later.
She established KARIN HANEKOM ATTORNEYS with property development as her main focus. Her assistance ranged from inception to negotiate and obtain vacant land, to draft commercial- and property development agreements, to assist with the general planning of development, appointment of the professional team, interface with Council and to liaise throughout with all roll-players during the development-, marketing- and registration process,
In 2018 she completed her Construction Adjudication course at the University of Pretoria, and in 2019 she joined the dynamic team of Bellingan Muller as a synergy was identified between providing property developers with assistance as mentioned and to then effectively manage and register the end-product to the public in an efficient and expedient way, as Bellingan Muller regularly appeared to be the top turn-around performers on the respective banks’ registration panels.