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  • Should I care about the changes to exchange control?

    South Africa 23.12.2021
    Introduction In the 2020 budget speech, the South African government announced that the current exchange control regime would be replaced by a new capital flow system. In what appeared to be fairly clear...

  • Litigation finance enhances access to justice

    South Africa 21.12.2021
    While different countries across the continent have different legal takes on litigation financing, the scenario in South Africa is that although litigation financing is entirely unregulated at the moment,...

  • South Africa's renewable energy industry to power ahead

    South Africa 20.12.2021
    South Africa is in the midst of a power crisis. Eskom's ageing infrastructure, reduced reliability and inferior quality of coal, and the significant gap in power generation capacity and demand has left...

  • Carbon markets and COP26

    International 16.12.2021
    After six years of negotiation, COP26 resolved one of the outstanding issues of the Paris Rulebook when it reached a consensus on a global carbon market mechanism. Article 6 of the Paris Agreement set...

  • A role for coal?

    International 15.12.2021
    The Glasgow Climate Pact is the first COP decision to mention coal. This has been widely viewed as a real achievement. Even campaigners who slam the wording of the Pact tend to see the inclusion of coal...

  • Financing COP 26 outcomes

    International 14.12.2021
    It was a watershed moment, according to Mark Carney. The UN Special Envoy for Climate Action and Finance was introducing the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero (Gfanz): over 450 banks, asset managers...

  • Three hurrahs for the tattletale

    South Africa 14.12.2021
    Whistle-blowers play a crucial role in ensuring accountability and should be hailed as heroes. Tsar Ivan the Terrible advanced on the city of Pskov in 1570 with his army to punish its inhabitants for...

  • When you protect whistleblowers, you protect your business

    South Africa 14.12.2021
    Recent news stories highlighted the role whistleblowers played in curbing international financial crimes, bringing to light alleged financial mismanagement and State capture, and the effects of not addressing...

  • Greenhouse gas removals: new technologies and new markets

    International 13.12.2021
    “Keep 1.5 degrees alive” was a common slogan at COP26. The Glasgow Climate Pact which concluded the conference reaffirmed the goal, set in the Paris Agreement, to “pursue efforts to limit...

  • Your foreign structures could be vulnerable to data leaks

    South Africa 26.11.2021
    Your foreign structures could be vulnerable to data leaks - consider what the consequences of that could be The release of the Pandora Papers shows that, in the modern world, where data is easily accessible...

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