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SARS Increases Customs Duties for Online Retail Orders: What You Need to Know

In a significant move aimed at bolstering local businesses and streamlining the customs process, SARS has increased customs duties on imports from popular online retailers such as Shein, Temu, and other similar platforms. This decision is expected to impact many South Afr..

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Protecting Your Personal Information When Gaming

Since its inception in the 1950s, video gaming has grown infinitely more popular, advanced, commercialised, and certainly more legally complicated. While games are typically subject to terms and conditions governing their access, gamers are often unaware of specific terms..

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President Ramaphosa Approves New Water Resources Infrastructure Agency Bill: Boosting Development and Finance in Water and Sanitation

As South Africa faces an intensifying water crisis, government is placing the spotlight on the water and sanitation sector by shifting from the "business as usual" approach to unlock innovative funding for increased water infrastructure development. On Tuesday, 27 August ..

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Latest draft guidance for accountable institutions

The Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) has recently published various pieces of guidance and draft guidance relating to beneficial ownership and the Risk Management and Compliance Programmes (RMCPs) of accountable institutions. The draft guidance is currently undergoing ..

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Regulating cannabis in the workplace in the wake of the agricultural watershed of cannabis cultivation in South Africa

Considering the growing cannabis industry and the Government's active investment in cannabis production in South Africa, particularly in the Eastern Cape (donned as South Africa's primary cannabis production hub), it is apparent that cannabis has economic value to South A..

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On the road to a cashless society – SARB digital payments roadmap

On 18 April 2024, the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) published its digital payments roadmap. The document entitled Digital Payments Roadmap: Towards Inclusive, Accessible, Effective and Sustainable Digital Payments in South Africa, sets out a 17-action item plan that t..

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South Africa takes bold step: Climate Change Bill receives parliamentary nod of approval

In a move towards fulfilling its international commitments and combating climate change head-on, South Africa has officially passed the Climate Change Bill. Both arms of Parliament - the National Assembly and the National Council of Provinces, unanimously approved this cr..

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The JSE moves forward with its market segmentation proposals

To enhance transparency, competitiveness, fairness and efficiency, the Johannesburg Stock Exchange proposes to introduce a market segmentation model for the JSE Main Board. This would create two segments: Main Board Prime and Main Board General. The Main Board General seg..

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The Competition Commission publishes revised Public Interest Guidelines

On 20 March 2024, the Competition Commission of South Africa published revised Public Interest Guidelines relating to merger control. The Revised Guidelines follow the Draft Public Interest Guidelines, which were published for public comment in October 2023. Although the ..

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