Law Reform

South Africa’s National AI Policy needs your help!

South Africa needs an agile, enabling, and proactive National AI policy grounded in our realistic context so its statements are actionable. Our policy should clearly outline, at a high level, how South Africa aims to capture AI's benefits while effectively [...]

By |2026-10-15T11:26:07+02:00October 14th, 2026|Categories: Law Reform, Public Policy|Tags: , , |

The POPIA Amendment Regulations 2025 commence

The POPIA Amendment Regulations commenced with immediate effect on 17 April 2025. These amended regulations cover new proposed rules of procedure, administrative fines, and expand the data subject's rights to their personal information.  In this post, we summarise the regulations, [...]

Comment on the draft POPIA Amendment Regulations 2021

On 13 October 2021, the information regulator invited comments on draft regulations that will amend the POPIA regulations, 2018. The draft regulations mainly cover new proposed rules of procedure, administrative fines, and other proposed amendments to the POPIA regulations. [...]

Plain language, consumerism and reform of South African contract law

A book called "Plain language, consumerism and reform of South African contract law" has been published. It deals with how the plain language movement and contextualism has reshaped the drafting and interpretation of contracts in South Africa. It is quite [...]

By |2026-10-13T14:52:21+02:00July 23rd, 2012|Categories: Law Reform, Plain Language|Tags: , |