South Africa: Technology

ENSafrica's latest legal insights span critical developments across African markets, from Uganda's proposed withholding tax on foreign debt to South Africa's rail reform revolution and the landmark COFI legislation heading to Parliament. These updates examine regulatory shifts, infrastructure financing innovations, and emerging legal frameworks that are reshaping how businesses operate across the continent.

While cybersecurity and data protection operate in the same ecosystem and are often used interchangeably, they should not be. Failing to understand this distinction creates both legal and commercial risk...

Connected technology has quietly become embedded in the everyday lives of individuals and organisation. From smartwatches and fitness bands that can track heart rates and monitor sleep patterns...

Cape Town's research programme with the University of Cape Town is laying the groundwork for electric bus deployment in its MyCiTi transit system, positioning the city as an early adopter of urban mobility transformation in Africa.

This comprehensive legal update covers recent developments across South African law, from pharmaceutical naming regulations and copyright platform liability to VAT amendments affecting insurance and digital services. The collection explores emerging challenges in intellectual property protection, cryptocurrency regulation, and data brokerage compliance.

This comprehensive legal update covers recent developments across South African law, from pharmaceutical naming regulations and copyright platform liability to VAT amendments affecting insurance and digital services. The collection explores emerging challenges in intellectual property protection, cryptocurrency regulation, and data brokering, while examining how AI and digital transformation are reshaping traditional legal frameworks.

This comprehensive legal update covers recent developments across South African law, from pharmaceutical naming regulations and copyright platform liability to VAT amendments affecting insurance and digital services. The collection explores emerging challenges in intellectual property protection, cryptocurrency regulation, and data brokerage compliance.

On 29 April 2026, the Minister of Finance, Enoch Godongwana, published amendments to the Regulations relating to Mutual Banks in Government Gazette Notice No. 7414 (Government Gazette No. 54593).

Prediction markets expose an awkward gap in South Africa’s current crypto-regulatory framework. The difficulty is not simply that they involve digital assets.