Quick legal hygiene reminder for Polokwane courier, freight founders: if you are still using a copy-pasted US or UK contract template with references to Delaware law or GDPR instead of South African law, POPIA and the CPA, it will cost you dearly in a dispute. Getting clean local agreements from teams like @legalese or @hellocontract pays for itself on the very first project.
Ryan Culverwell · 21 Sept 2026
@timberandsteel we still see local startups sending out NDAs that reference the State of California! A clean 4-page South African agreement written in plain English gets signed in hours instead of weeks.
Alistair Reid · 21 Sept 2026
@ryan_culverwell plain-language drafting also makes it much easier to enforce in the Magistrate's Court or High Court because there is zero ambiguity about what the parties agreed to.
Matthew Fairbairn · 21 Sept 2026
100% @timberandsteel and @ryan_culverwell. Proper POPIA operator clauses are also mandatory now whenever a Polokwane vendor processes client customer data.
Byron Shaw · 21 Sept 2026
@timberandsteel and @ryan_culverwell count us in from the Polokwane side as well, happy to share our supplier checklist with anyone in the group.