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        <description><![CDATA[Polity.org.za offers a unique take on news, with a focus on political, legal, economic and social issues in South Africa and Africa, as well as international affairs. Polity strives to provide our readers reliable and objective reporting on important issues that drive our society.]]></description>
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            <title>From Publication to Impact: A Connected Publishing Ecosystem for African Scholarship </title>
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            <description><![CDATA[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 a scholarly publications’ impact depends on whether research can be discovered, accessed and used across platforms and devices. Researchers, funders and institutions therefore expect scholarly content in multiple digital formats, supported by structured metadata and connected to search engines and indexing services.]]></description>
            <author>Creamer Media Reporter  </author>
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            <title>Proposed tax changes to remuneration thresholds and monetary limits put flexible benefits in ...</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The latest Rates and Monetary Amounts and Amendment of Revenue Laws Bill, 2026, tabled during the Medium-term Budget Policy Statement on 21 October 2026, proposes changes to certain remuneration thresholds and monetary limits in the tax legislation. While these changes relate to specific tax exemptions and employee benefits, they also highlight the importance of understanding how remuneration packages are designed and how employers can make better use of the options available to them. With the rising cost of living putting pressure on employees and businesses alike, employers need to look beyond annual salary increases and consider how remuneration packages can be structured more effectively.]]></description>
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            <title>AI Quality Management under the EU AI Act: Principles, Obligations and the Links to GDPR and POPIA</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[“The EU AI Act asks a simple question of anyone building high-risk AI systems: can your organisation reliably produce safe, lawful systems, and can it prove this? A quality management system is how you answer.” Introduction]]></description>
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            <title>Confidence is not capability (Part 2): Governing AI in the age of the rogue agent</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In Part 1, “Confidence Is Not Capability (Part 1): What the Data Shows, and Why POPIA Is the Foundation of Cyber Resilience”, we reviewed the findings of the Data Confidence & AI Readiness in Africa Report 2026, published by Veeam Software together with ITWeb. We argued that POPIA’s security safeguard, data minimisation, breach notification and operator provisions already amount to a cyber-resilience framework, and that data visibility is the foundation on which all of them rest. This article addresses the technology that will test that foundation most. Only 29% of organisations consider themselves advanced or fully ready to adopt, govern and scale AI using trusted data. Yet AI is already embedded in core operations and autonomous workflows at 14% of them.]]></description>
            <author>Creamer Media Reporter  </author>
            <category>Werksmans</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
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            <description><![CDATA[Ransomware is no longer an IT outage. Today’s attacks target backups first, exfiltrate personal information before encrypting it and use the threat of publication to extract payment. Running alongside that threat, artificial intelligence has moved from pilot projects into daily use in most large organisations, usually ahead of the controls meant to govern it. In South Africa, all of this takes place under a data protection regime that has been fully enforceable since 1 July 2021. The Protection ...]]></description>
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            <title>“Dishonest” may not mean what you think</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The word “dishonesty” carries enormous weight in the workplace. It is a label that, once affixed to an employee, can justify the ultimate sanction of dismissal. Yet how often do we pause to consider whether the conduct in question truly warrants such a grave characterisation? The recent judgment in Sandra Noelene Opperman v Department of Health – Western Cape (Case No. C40/2020) serves as a timely reminder that we must be mindful of how we use the word “dishonesty”, and that mislabelling conduct can have profound consequences for both employers and employees. The facts: A cell phone, a long career and a harsh outcome]]></description>
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            <category>Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr</category>
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            <title>Sars is coming for influencers - Your followers may be growing, but so is your tax risk!</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[South African social media influencers and digital content creators face a tax wake-up call as Sars formally “recognises Social Media Influencers, Digital Content Creators, and the Gig Economy as named taxpayer segments within its segmentation model”.  Brand deals, free products, international platform earnings, and sponsored posts could all attract tax — and ignoring your obligations could lead to penalties, interest and, in serious cases, criminal prosecution.]]></description>
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            <category>Other Briefs</category>
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            <title>SABS publishes draft AI standards for public comment</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) has published a series of draft standards on artificial intelligence (AI) for public comment. The drafts adopt international ISO/IEC standards as South African documents, and cover transparency, data quality, human oversight, and the benefits and environmental impact of AI. While the standards are voluntary, they are likely to become the local benchmark for responsible AI, in line with international best practice, creating alignment between South Africa and global standards.]]></description>
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            <title>Sars taken to task over tax returns filed without taxpayer's authority</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[A recent Johannesburg High Court judgment has highlighted the limits of the South African Revenue Service’s (Sars) discretion when refusing to reconsider tax assessments, particularly where tax returns have allegedly been submitted fraudulently by persons acting without the taxpayer's authority. In TEG Asset & Risk Management CC v Commissioner for the South African Revenue Service (Case No. 2023-110354), delivered on 8 October 2026, the High Court reviewed and set aside two decisions by Sars refusing to issue reduced assessments.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Constructive dismissal remains one of the more difficult claims to prove in South African labour law. Employees must do far more than demonstrate that the workplace was unpleasant or that their relationship with management had deteriorated. The legal threshold is a demanding one: the employer must have made continued employment objectively intolerable. The recent CCMA decision in Ramugondo v Rand Water provides an important reminder that employers can cross that threshold not only through active misconduct, but also through a failure to intervene when workplace bullying is allowed to flourish.]]></description>
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