by Dianne Bayley | Oct 20, 2021 | Security and Legal
Constituting a world first in a field that has traditionally been hostile to “artificially intelligent” inventors, South Africa’s patent office granted a patent in July 2021 to an invention created by an AI system[1][1]. by Spoor & Fisher digs into the...
by Dianne Bayley | Sep 14, 2021 | Security and Legal
South Africa’s Department of Transport announced the implementation of the Administrative Adjudication of Road Traffic Offences (AARTO) Act, which will introduce a new licence points demerit system geared towards imposing stricter penalties for road rule...
by Dianne Bayley | Apr 20, 2020 | Sustainability
More than 700 million Africans lack access to a bank or mobile money account and only 41% of Africans are financially included. This is due to the high cost of providing financial services in Africa which forces many financial services providers to remain focused on...
by Dianne Bayley | Dec 4, 2019 | Security and Legal
African countries are increasingly recognising competition regulation as an important policy tool to realise inclusive growth and sustainable development. As a result, the number of both domestic and supranational competition regimes on the continent has grown rapidly...
by Kathy Gibson | Mar 20, 2019 | Security and Legal
By Colin Thornton, MD of Turrito Networks In a news environment dominated by political and economic shifts, the devastating effects of cyber crime and data breaches go largely unreported. Yet for small to medium sized businesses (SMMEs) in South Africa, which arguably...
