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AI Quality Management under the EU AI Act: Principles, Obligations and the Links to GDPR and POPIA
23rd October 2026 “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... →
Confidence is not capability (Part 2): Governing AI in the age of the rogue agent
23rd October 2026 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... →
Confidence is not capability (Part 1): What the data shows, and why POPIA is the foundation of cyber resilience
23rd October 2026 Ransomware is no longer an IT outage. Today’s attacks target backups first, exfiltrate personal information before encrypting it and use the threat... →
SABS publishes draft AI standards for public comment
21st October 2026 The South African Bureau of Standards (SABS) has published a series of draft standards on artificial intelligence (AI) for public comment. The... →
When silence becomes complicity: Constructive dismissal, workplace bullying and the cost of doing nothing
20th October 2026 Constructive dismissal remains one of the more difficult claims to prove in South African labour law. Employees must do far more than demonstrate... →
Court congestion: Will revised mediation rules solve the problem?
19th October 2026 The Gauteng Division of the High Court of South Africa recently published a notice of proposed amendments to its mandatory mediation protocol,... →
Kusile Pollution: SCA Orders Eskom and Regulators to Act
19th October 2026 In a recent ruling, Topigs Norsvin (Pty) Ltd v Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd and Others, the Supreme Court of Appeal (SCA) considered whether pollution... →
You can outsource tasks to AI, but not the risk
16th October 2026 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly moving from answering questions to taking actions on our behalf. This emerging form of AI, often called... →
