New charges escalate TMPD officer and attorney wife theft case to over R4 million
Prosecutors have added another fraud charge against a couple accused of allegedly stealing and laundering millions from deceased estates after a new complainant reported...
Why business email compromise keeps landing on law firms, and why nobody is covering...
The verification rule has been in the Legal Practice Council Rules for years. Whether it gets followed on a busy Friday afternoon is a...
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...
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...
Passion Is Not a Governance Strategy: Why Community Schemes Need Competent Boards, Not Just...
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...
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...
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...
Digital transformation doesn’t fail because of technology – It fails because of uncertainty
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...
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,...
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...
Navigating the Digital Shift: Strengthening Compliance and Confidence in the Modern Legal Practice
As August unfolds, many law firms find themselves looking beyond daily operations toward the demands of the final months of the year. This period...
JUDGMENT CALLS: (Why AI Can’t Compute Legal Ethics)
The boardroom has acquired a new oracle. It doesn’t wear robes, pause for effect or charge in six-minute units. It produces an answer before...
