Quick legal hygiene reminder for Randburg quantity surveyor 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.
Theuns Erasmus · 21 Oct 2026
@joanne_bowden 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.
Hennie Cronje · 21 Oct 2026
@theuns_erasmus 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.
Wynand Olivier · 21 Oct 2026
100% @joanne_bowden and @theuns_erasmus. Proper POPIA operator clauses are also mandatory now whenever a Randburg vendor processes client customer data.
kobus_b · 21 Oct 2026
@joanne_bowden and @theuns_erasmus count us in from the Randburg side as well, happy to share our supplier checklist with anyone in the group.