South Africa: Technology

Modern businesses depend on technology infrastructure that is often overlooked during M&A transactions, yet IT systems, software licenses, and data management frameworks are fundamental to operational continuity and business value.

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...

As artificial intelligence systems become embedded in enterprise operations, organisations are discovering that token-based pricing models introduce unprecedented commercial and operational risks.

Artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming corporate litigation, introducing unprecedented challenges around evidence reliability, algorithmic liability, and predictive case analytics. As 65% of organizations now deploy generative AI regularly...

Banks are rapidly deploying artificial intelligence across critical functions like credit decisioning, fraud detection, and customer engagement, but beneath the efficiency gains lies a growing risk: AI debt.

South Africa's National Treasury and SARB have released draft Capital Flow Management Regulations that would fundamentally reshape how cross-border capital flows are regulated, with particular focus on crypto assets. The proposed framework raises critical questions about implementation detail, proportionality, and whether the broad provisions align with the stated policy objective of moving toward a more positive-bias system with fewer pre-approvals and greater reliance on reporting.

South Africa's central bank is prioritising the modernisation of existing payment infrastructure over the immediate introduction of a retail central bank digital currency.

South Africa's proposed payments reforms are expanding access to the national payment system for non-bank players, but they are also drawing clear regulatory boundaries.