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Sal & Caldeira Advogados

Procedures for the Allocation of Concessions Under Mini-Grids

Universal access to energy is one of the priorities of the Government of Mozambique. To achieve this goal, the Government's actions must be complemented by private investment, a fact that has been conditioned by unattractive legal barriers to investment in this sector. In..

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Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr

Recent amendments to South Africa’s non-profit organisation legislation in response to the FATF greylisting

In 2021, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) released its Mutual Evaluation Report of South Africa, which summarised the effectiveness of South Africa’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing measures.

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Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie

Data Breaches: Compliance obligations under the Nigerian Data Protection Act 2023

Data breaches are now a regular occurrence in the modern data-driven and digital global 
economy that the world has now become. A number of organisations have suffered data 
breaches in the course of their operations with differing degrees of seriousness. ..

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Koep

The right of access to information vs the right to privacy?

The Access to Information Act 8 of 2022 (hereinafter “the Act”), was passed by Parliament and signed by the President of the Republic of Namibia on 29 November 2022, but has however, not yet been brought into force. Although not having taken effect in Namibia, the concept..

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ENSafrica

Long-awaited amendments to RICA published to address unconstitutional aspects

On 25 August 2023, the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services published the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-related Information Amendment Bill 2023 (the “Bill”). The Bill aims to amend the Reg..

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Bowmans

Development of Carbon Project and Trading Legal Framework: Enactment of the Climate Change (Amendment) Act, 2023

The Climate Change (Amendment) Act, 2023 (the Act) was enacted on 1 September 2023 and came into force on 15 September 2023. It is worth mentioning that both Houses of Parliament passed the Act with minimal amendments and the enacted law ..

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ENSafrica

The Climate Change Amendment Bill is now law

On 1 September 2023, President William Ruto assented to the Climate Change (Amendment) Bill (National Assembly Bill number 42 of 2023), which amends the Climate Change Act, Number 11 of 2016.

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Sal & Caldeira Advogados

Publication of the New Labour Law

We hereby inform the business community and other interested parties that the new Labour Law, Law no. 13/2023, of 25 August, has been published in the Official Gazette on 25 August 2023. 

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Bowmans

South Africa: Amendments to the Companies Act

The long-awaited amendments to the Companies Act have made their way into Parliament and will likely be promulgated imminently.

 

The amendment Bills are largely similar to previous drafts. The most material changes simply add clarity or relax require..

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