Quick legal hygiene reminder for Rustenburg managed it, fibre 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.
Shireen Petersen · 07 Oct 2026
@debbie_katz_jhb 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.
Candice October · 07 Oct 2026
@shireen_petersen 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.
Soraya Adams · 07 Oct 2026
100% @debbie_katz_jhb and @shireen_petersen. Proper POPIA operator clauses are also mandatory now whenever a Rustenburg vendor processes client customer data.
Fatima Booley · 07 Oct 2026
@debbie_katz_jhb and @shireen_petersen count us in from the Rustenburg side as well, happy to share our supplier checklist with anyone in the group.