The ethics of using AI in wartime reached the courts last week, with AI safety and research company Anthropic suing the US Government for tagging it as a supply chain risk after a fall-out over the use of its products ... Read More
Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana has confirmed that the Land & Agricultural Development Bank of SA was hit by a ransomware attack on 12 January. He revealed this in a parliamentary reply to MKP MP Adil Nchabeleng, who had asked him ... Read More
South African organisations are reporting higher rates of malicious insider activity than the global average, with nearly half saying deliberate data theft by employees has increased over the past year, according to Mimecast’s latest State of Human Risk Report. A ... Read More
Smile ID has released its 2026 Digital Identity Fraud Report, revealing that SA has the highest share of deepfake-driven fraud in Southern Africa at 22%. According to a MyBroadband report, the firm’s research also found that AI is fuelling biometric ... Read More
SA is living through a policing paradox: many crimes are now first discovered online, yet local policing remains largely offline. Assaults, robberies, bullying, GBV incidents and public disorder increasingly surface on WhatsApp, TikTok, Facebook and X before a case number is opened ... Read More
Africa is urbanising more rapidly than any other region in the globe. Its population is currently 1.48bn, with a predicted increase to 2.5bn by 2050. This makes it the youngest continent, with a median age of only 19 ... Read More
Anti-poaching operations in SA’s Greater Kruger region are increasingly shaped by advanced surveillance technology and international funding, raising questions about militarisation, governance and data privacy. In an analysis on the Oxpeckers site, journalist Thulani Ngwenya notes that ‘in the control ... Read More
* The City of Cape Town has warned residents of a sophisticated WhatsApp scam demanding electricity payments, with scammers posing as officials and threatening disconnection. The city’s energy and finance directorates said a large power user was recently targeted, with the ... Read More
* The presidential eThekwini Working Group has committed to ensuring that the multi-billion rand film studio development earmarked for Durban gets off the ground. Deputy chair of the working group Mike Mabuyakhulu said this week that work is already underway to ... Read More
* By the end of the week, 17 bank branches will enable clients to apply for Smart IDs on their premises through the new digital partnership model developed with Home Affairs. Applications will be paperless, and take approximately five to 10 ... Read More
Pansy Tlakula, the chair of the Information Regulator, has published rules for the management of health information. Policy Watch notes that she said ‘the primary purpose of the regulations is to ‘assist responsible parties to interpret section 32(6) of ... Read More
Western Cape High Court State v Lenting and 19 Others Judgment: 27 February 2026 Keywords: Criminal law and procedure – application for hybrid hearing in a criminal trial – right to a fair trial – the right to be present ... Read More
The Intersection of the Law and Technological Innovation P Stoop and C Lupton | Print ISBN: 9781485154945 This book examines how legal systems must adapt to rapid technological change driven by developments such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, quantum computing and the ... Read More
