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        <description><![CDATA[Webber Wentzel was awarded African Law firm of the Year at the 2019 African Legal Awards. We were praised by the panel of judges for our deal presence across Africa, as well as for our commitment to access to justice.]]></description>
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            <title>AI, intellectual property and governance: Why the real conversation belongs in the boardroom</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer something financial institutions are preparing for. It is already embedded in how decisions are made, how products are designed and how risk is managed. Whether through fraud detection, algorithmic trading, customer engagement or compliance monitoring, AI is steadily reshaping the financial services sector. Much of the conversation around AI still focuses on innovation and capability, what these systems can do, how quickly they can be adopted and how they can improve efficiency. Beneath that, however, a more consequential conversation is emerging, centered on ownership, accountability and governance.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[White-collar crime in Africa is no longer a predominantly domestic concern; it has expanded to an international stage, so too has the corporate exposure that comes with it. As capital crosses borders, data moves at the speed of light and corporate structures become more complex, economic crime has kept pace, becoming more sophisticated, more multinational and increasingly difficult to investigate and prosecute within the confines of a single legal system. This is particularly acute in Africa, where rapid economic integration including through frameworks such as the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is accelerating cross-border commercial activity and, with it, cross-border criminal exposure.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) has published the third version of its proposed amendment to the payments regulatory framework.  The amendments focus on two key instruments, a draft exemption notice that would exclude certain payment activities from constituting “the business of a bank”, and a revised draft Authorisation Framework set out in a draft directive introducing a comprehensive activity-based regulatory regime. Stakeholders have until 15 June 2026 to submit comments, marking a final opportunity to influence what is expected to become a foundational framework for the future of payments in South Africa.]]></description>
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            <title>Outcomes-based bonds as Africa's most powerful tool for solving the water crisis</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Across the African continent, water infrastructure is under increasing strain. The compounding pressures of accelerating urbanisation, decaying legacy systems, climate change and chronic underinvestment in public infrastructure over decades mean that both the public and private sectors must urgently mobilise towards solutions. The African Development Bank estimates that the continent's water and sanitation infrastructure financing gap runs to tens of billions of dollars annually. Already constrained public budgets, development finance institutions and multilateral lenders cannot close that gap alone. Private capital markets, with their scale and appetite for yield, represent the most significant untapped source of infrastructure finance on the continent.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The publication of South Africa's Draft National AI Policy (Draft Policy) marks a turning point for organisations that develop, deploy or rely on artificial intelligence (AI). Beyond signalling the emergence of formal AI regulation, the Draft Policy introduces new expectations around governance, ethics, accountability and sector-specific oversight. The Draft Policy, published by the Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT), states its underlying policy imperative as the development of a comprehensive, inclusive and ethically grounded national policy that ensures responsible innovation, protects the public interest and advances socio-economic transformation.]]></description>
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            <title>Sanctioned into impossibility? Force majeure in the arbitral area</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Sanctions, increasingly deployed as instruments of political and ideological signalling, have risen by 346% since 2017. Commercial parties are increasingly finding themselves unable to perform contractual obligations, not through any fault of their own, but by operation of state-imposed legal prohibitions. The question that follows is as deceptively simple as it is legally complex: can a party invoke force majeure when sanctions render performance impossible? Force majeure has long served as a contractual safety valve, receiving major airtime during the height of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, excusing non-performance where an extraordinary event beyond a party's control prevents the discharge of obligations. We now face another unprecedented event: the dramatic and ever-changing escalation of geopolitical tensions, marked by sweeping sanctions regimes, where the application of this doctrine to sanctions-induced impossibility is far from straightforward.]]></description>
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            <title>Unchained from the algorithm: Global developments in social media platform liability</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[It's been a challenging period for social media platforms. The past year has seen numerous developments to the laws govern social media platforms globally. First, Australia has led the way in introducing age-related legislation to regulate the use of social media, with other countries adopting the same approach. Then, just over two weeks ago, Meta and Google were on the receiving end of adverse judgments with profound implications for their business models.  The verdicts issued in the United States cases of Kaley G.M. v Meta and Google, and the State of New Mexico v Meta and Others, if upheld on appeal, could dramatically change the way platforms operate.]]></description>
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            <title>How artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the insurance and financial services sectors</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Picture a rainy Wednesday morning in Sandton, sometime in the near future. A claims handler opens their laptop, and right away, things move much faster than they used to. For every new email, the company's artificial intelligence system (AI) has already drafted a suggested reply. The inbox is lighter too, because a public chatbot, which has been trained on policy wordings and is constantly improving, now handles most client and broker queries. Need a meeting? An AI assistant automatically ...]]></description>
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