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AI and libraries: opportunity, not replacement
Keeping human expertise at the centre of innovation - Artificial intelligence is changing the way information is organised, discovered and used. For libraries, it presents opportunities to improve workflows, save time and help users find information more efficiently.
The important question is how libraries can use it responsibly while keeping professional...
Paratus Lesotho opens for business with Starlink
Pan-African telecommunications and network services group, Paratus Group announces its latest operation in Lesotho. Paratus Lesotho will provide high-speed internet services backed by local customer and technical support and offers Starlink enterprise connectivity alongside Paratus network solutions to businesses and organizations across the Kingdom of Lesotho. The launch marks another step...
From Publication to Impact: A Connected Publishing Ecosystem for African Scholarship
Digital transformation is reshaping scholarly publishing, but meaningful transformation requires more than new technology. It requires an integrated publishing environment. To simplify workflows, strengthen publication quality and help research reach the audiences it was created to serve.
A journal article can be published and still remain invisible and undiscoverable. Today...
The changing role of the library
From providing information to supporting the research journey
Libraries have always connected people with information. Today, however, that role extends far beyond providing access to books, journals and databases.
Modern libraries support users throughout the research journey. Librarians help researchers identify credible sources, improve their search strategies, navigate complex information environments...
From Prompt to Practice: Navigating the New Era of Legal AI...
The legal profession has spent the last few years drowning in a sea of generic artificial intelligence. Law firms and in-house legal departments were told that conversational chatbots would revolutionize their workflows, only to find themselves wrestling with rigid software that required massive subscription overhauls, manual prompt engineering from...
When compliance gaps turn into expensive lessons
The latest regulatory action against a major financial institution, resulting in a R28 million administrative penalty for shortcomings under the Financial Intelligence Centre Act (FICA), is a timely reminder that compliance cannot be treated as a once-off exercise.
What stands out to me is not the size of the penalty,...
Daan’s Snippets – 9th November 2026
Practice News
By far the most interesting news relates to an application by personal injury lawyers, backed by several others which includes the Law Society, against the Judge President of Gauteng, the Minister of Justice and others, in which they sought an order declaring the directive, introducing Mandatory Mediation in...
POPIA Fines are Here! [What the Penalty Means for South African...
There’s something wonderfully South African about taking a legal obligation seriously only once someone else gets an invoice.
Law firms have had the policies and sat through the workshops on client confidentiality. Yet a password stuck beneath a keyboard can apparently coexist quite happily with the conviction that discretions sacrosanct. Reconciling those...
VAT is a governance responsibility, not a compliance task
If VAT is not on your risk register, it should be. This is not simply because SARS is modernising VAT administration, audits are increasing or technology is changing. VAT belongs on the risk register because it is one of the few taxes that touches almost every transaction a business...
Sympathy For The Bot [Meet AVA, the AI Copilot Built Into...
The final instalment of our AI series, where the devil’s in the detail and the detail finally answers back.
Let Me Introduce You: AVA, the AJS Virtual Assistant
Halloween's been and gone. The plastic skeletons are back in the garage, the kids have crashed off their sugar high and somewhere in...
Daan’s Snippets – 26th October 2026
Practice News
Speaking of AI in the second paragraph of the conveyancing section below: I had not known that there is quite an effortless way of checking whether AI was used in generating a document: https://synthid.com/
There are two interesting discussions on uncertainty created by divergent decisions of our courts, namely...
The Boardroom Exorcism [Who Gets to Override the Machine?]
Human Oversight, AI Kill Switches and the Fine Art of Not Looking Guilty.
September gave us the synthetic whistleblower - an AI system with the rather antisocial habit of spotting the transaction, pattern, or decision nobody in the room particularly wants spotted. October brings the less glamorous sequel. The system...
Scrapping the Road Accident Fund to save R2.25 on petrol is...
OUTA CEO Wayne Duvenage recently spoke in an interview on 702 about the growing calls to scrap the RAF, a state-owned entity that has become a major source of frustration for taxpayers over the years.
He said that getting rid of the RAF levy would necessitate a shift to either...
Agentic AI vs AI Agents
Imagine you have a personal assistant who can help you with your daily work, organise your timetable, and prepare for client meetings. Now imagine that assistant can also decide what needs doing, work out the best way to do it, and carry out the tasks with very little help...
Beyond the Firewall: Protecting Your Law Firm’s Information, Finances, and Reputation
October serves as a timely reminder that safeguarding a law firm requires far more than locking the office doors at the end of the day. In today’s digital legal environment, a practice's most critical assets extend beyond physical property and financial capital - they encompass confidential client records, sensitive...
The Compliance Crypt [When Legacy Systems Refuse to Stay Buried]
Why Legacy Technology Is the AI Compliance Risk Hiding on the Balance Sheet…
Every organisation has one - a system so old that nobody dares switch it off, question it too closely or mention it during due diligence without first shutting the door. It sits beneath the grand promises of...
Daan’s Snippets – 12th October 2026
Practice News
Restraints of trade in business acquisitions: https://fairbridges.co.za/the-value-of-a-restraint-of-trade-in-a-business-acquisition/
Does negligent medical care act as a novus actus interveniens? https://www.derebus.org.za/murder-does-negligent-medical-care-act-as-a-novus-actus-interveniens/
Other than when forced to do so, mediation holds many advantages: https://www.derebus.org.za/mediation-rule-41a-and-the-future-of-civil-litigation-in-south-africa-why-legal-practitioners-can-no-longer-afford-to-ignore-mediation/
The RAF has again been in the news of late in that reports swirled on future funding models such as imposts...
Has AI Actually Saved Lawyer’s Time?
AI is helping lawyers review contracts, organise files and tackle routine administration in a fraction of the time. But a revealing discussion among legal professionals suggests that saving time is only half the story.
Artificial intelligence has made some impressive promises to the legal profession. Faster research, quicker contract reviews,...
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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