After completing her degrees at the age of 24, and being admitted as an attorney and conveyancer in November 2002, she practiced as such with Heunis & Heunis Attorneys in Cape Town since November 2002 where she started specializing in property law until she was head hunted by Dykes, Van Heerden Inc, a property law firm based in Roodepoort, Gauteng, who wanted a branch to be opened in Cape Town. She ran such branch in Bellville together with her husband, Louis Slabbert, since 1 June 2004 and is a shareholder and director of Dykes van Heerden Cape Inc and a partner of Dykes van Heerden Slabbert Hopkins.
