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Code Red to Code Regulated: South Africa’s Data, AI and Cybersecurity Shift in 2025, and What’s to Come in 2026?
by Armand Swart, Director, Hlonelwa Lutuli, Associate and Hanán Jeppie, Candidate Attorney South Africa's data protection, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence ("AI") landscape matured significantly in 2025. [...]
Supreme Court of Appeal clarifies boundaries between casino and bookmaker licences in the Gauteng province
by Wendy Rosenberg - Director, Tebogo Sibidla - Director and Nothando Madondo - Associate In recent years, the number of online bookmakers offering fixed odds bets [...]
Proposed Economic Opportunity Tax for Casino Operator Licensees in the Western Cape to relocate their casinos
by Wendy Rosenberg, Director and Head of Digital Media & Electronic Communications On 6 June 2025, the draft Western Cape Twentieth Gambling and Racing Amendment Bill, [...]
Sports Betting Opportunity: Mpumalanga Economic Regulator Invites Proposals for Bookmaker Licences
Introduction The Mpumalanga Economic Regulator has published a notice that it intends to invite proposals for Bookmaker Licences in terms of a Request For Proposals For [...]
The National AI Policy Framework: A step closer to aligning with international trends
and Nothando Madondo, Candidate Attorney On 14 August 2024, the Department of Communications and Digital Development published the draft National AI Policy Framework for public input. This initial [...]
Werksmans Technology Media and Telecommunications Africa Quarterly e‑Bulletin
This e-bulletin highlights key legislative and regulatory developments in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors in sub-Saharan Africa. This issue covers the period 16 October 2023 [...]
Crypto providers running out of time…
and Hlonelwa Lutuli, Candidate Attorney On 19 October 2022, the Financial Services Conduct Authority ("FSCA") published the Declaration of a Crypto Asset as a Financial Product [...]
Technology, Media and Telecommunications Africa Quarterly e-Bulletin
This Africa Quarterly e-bulletin highlights key legislative and regulatory developments in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors in sub-saharan Africa. This issue covers the period 16 [...]
Reviewing and updating your privacy notices
Transparency is one of the key principles for the lawful processing of personal information worldwide. If you collect and use people's personal information, you have most [...]
Telecommunications Media and Technology Africa Quarterly e Bulletin
This e-bulletin highlights key legislative and regulatory developments in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors in sub-Saharan Africa. This issue covers the period 16 July 2022 [...]
To 2030 and beyond: Can embracing AI technologies help South Africa reach the National Development Plan’s visions for the ICT sector?
Once upon a time, the National Planning Commission published the National Development Plan and set the following long term goals for the ICT sector: "By 2030, [...]
Technology, Media and Telecommunications Africa Quarterly e‑Bulletin | May 2022
Botswana Broadband Facts and Figures Report, 2021 On 21 January 2022, the Botswana Communications Regulatory Authority (BOCRA) published its Broadband Facts and Figures Report for 2021, [...]
Inadequacy of law in the digital age
Technology is advancing much more quickly than most people anticipated even a decade ago. This begs the question as to whether or not our social, economic [...]
