How Lawyers Can Buy the Right Laptop Without Overspending
The most reliable way to save money on a laptop is not hunting the deepest discount. It is buying only what you actually need and refusing everything else. For South African lawyers and legal staff, that means a machine that handles document-heavy work, online research platforms, video consultations, and...
A will is only the beginning: Why trusted data matters when...
As National Wills Week 2026 highlights the importance of having a valid will, the legal profession is also reminded of what happens after the document is signed. Administering an estate depends on finding the right people, assets and information, and that requires trusted data.
From 14 to 18 September 2026,...
ChatGPT Work: The AI Colleague
For many lawyers, ChatGPT has already become a useful tool for drafting, brainstorming and research. But there is a big difference between asking ChatGPT a question and asking ChatGPT to actually do the work.
That is where ChatGPT Work comes in.
OpenAI describes ChatGPT Work as an environment designed to complete...
Why beneficial ownership is still one of business’s biggest blind spots
When organisations conduct due diligence on a new customer, supplier or business partner, there's often a sense of reassurance once the basics have been verified. The company registration checks out, the directors are identified, and the necessary documentation has been collected. The onboarding process moves forward with confidence.
But here's...
Trusted legal research starts with verified sources
Researchers increasingly use artificial intelligence to support research across many fields, including law. While these tools offer speed and convenience, their effectiveness depends on the quality and reliability of the information they draw on.
In a legal context, accuracy and source credibility are essential. Researchers must ground their research in...
Have you started your Directive 11 RCR submission yet?
On 31 March 2026, the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) officially issued Directive 11 of 2026, mandating Legal practitioners and other Accountable Institutions (AIs) to submit their 2026 Risk and Compliance Return (RCR) electronically by 31 July 2026.
The questionnaire aims to provide the FIC with an understanding of how Accountable...
Visibility before velocity: Taking control of IT infrastructure costs
Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving from experimentation to everyday business operations. Whether it's developers using AI-assisted coding tools, knowledge workers leveraging intelligent assistants, or organisations embedding AI into customer experiences, the pressure to adopt these technologies has never been greater.
What often receives far less attention, however, is the infrastructure...
THE BLACK BOX MUTINY – Why Less Intelligent AI May Be...
Corporate optimism tends to peak just before litigation. There’s usually a polished deck, a consultant repeating “at scale”, and an AI system nobody in the room can explain without calling the vendor. The board approves it. Procurement applauds. Legal stays quiet, which isn’t necessarily reassurance.
Welcome to the friction economy - the expensive collision between hyper-automated systems and stubbornly un-automated humans. Machines can...
New charges escalate TMPD officer and attorney wife theft case to...
Prosecutors have added another fraud charge against a couple accused of allegedly stealing and laundering millions from deceased estates after a new complainant reported losing over R1.3 million from a deceased estate.
Attorney Charlotte Tibana and her husband, Tshwane Metro Police Department (TMPD) officer Peter Nonyane, also known as "Gagash",...
Why business email compromise keeps landing on law firms, and why...
The verification rule has been in the Legal Practice Council Rules for years. Whether it gets followed on a busy Friday afternoon is a separate matter.
If you have been anywhere near a law firm’s accounts function in the last few years, you have probably heard some version of this...
GUARDING THE GATE: Human Responsibility in Algorithmic Liability
When AI makes a multi-million-rand mistake, the machine won’t take the stand. Its human gatekeepers will.
It begins, as these things often do, with a persuasive dashboard and a boardroom full of people delighted to discover that accountability can apparently be automated. The model is faster than the analysts, cheaper...
Subscription Fraud Surges 307%; SA Telecommunications Sector Enters Systemic-Risk Phase
South Africa’s telecommunications sector is facing a rapidly intensifying wave of fraud, cybercrime and interconnected operational threats, with subscription fraud cases surging 307% in a single year, according to the new Communications Risk and Information Centre (COMRiC) Telecommunications Sector Report 2026.
COMRiC, the neutral, not-for-profit industry body that brings South...
Passion Is Not a Governance Strategy: Why Community Schemes Need Competent...
In our complex, the monthly levy was R1,092 in 2019. By 2025 it had risen to R1,311. Yet according to our former managing agent’s own records, a single homeowner who owed R67,523 in March 2019 owed R975,138.72 by December 2025.
Sit with that number for a moment. Even if that...
Did AI just kill document automation?
Not quite. But a few products may wish to start getting their “affairs in order”.
For the past few years, I have argued that AI cannot replace serious document automation. That’s because AI is probabilistic: it produces an answer that is “probably right”, whereas document automation is deterministic: give it...
AI Workforce Design (Why the Tech-Human Hybrid Wins)
By now, every self-respecting boardroom has an AI strategy. A few have two, usually because the first one is mostly adjectives. Autonomous agents promise to research, draft, triage, negotiate, monitor and escalate while the Executives sleep. It’s an irresistible pitch: tireless digital colleagues, no parking bay and no uncomfortable...
Digital transformation doesn’t fail because of technology – It fails because...
When people think about digital transformation, they often picture new software, automation, artificial intelligence or cloud-based platforms. But from where I sit, leading business development in the legal and property sectors, technology is rarely the biggest obstacle. People’s uncertainty is.
One of the most common misconceptions is that digital transformation...
THE BATON: A GIRL FROM 1976 MEETS A GIRL FROM 2026
50 years later, Melisizwe asks: what will this generation of young women do with the opportunities the youth of 1976 fought for?
WHAT: RISE HER 2026, hosted by Melisizwe Social Enterprise, brings a symbolic schoolgirl from 1976 face-to-face with a Girls in STEM learner from 2026 in a live production marking...
My AI Lawyer puts affordable legal advice in your pocket
My AI Lawyer has launched in South Africa, offering an affordable artificial intelligence legal advisor you can access online and at any time. Available on the web and via WhatsApp, the platform provides you with practical, on-demand guidance on everyday legal questions. Qualified human legal advisors are available when you...
The Architecture of Awe – Why the World Needs Beautiful Words
In a world increasingly governed by the cold precision of algorithms and the binary rigidity of numbers, we’re often told that data is the ultimate truth. We’re told that numbers rule the world. But while numbers can measure the...
The High Cost of Low Stakes
Why a Staff Writer is a Death Sentence for Your Brand …
"Hiring a staff writer to explain the law is like hiring a Lego architect to build a cathedral. The dimensions are correct, but the soul has been traded for interlocking plastic safety....
The Bot that Cried “Statute”!
Why Your Law Firm Needs a Human (Specifically, a Belletrist) …
Let’s be honest - we are all currently living in a digital fever dream. If I see one more LinkedIn post generated by a bot that starts with "In...
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