For close to two years the profession has been having the same uncomfortable conversation about artificial intelligence, and it has always had the same shape in that a practitioner under deadline pressure asks an AI tool for authority; the tool obligingly invents a case; the fiction survives into heads of argument; a judge notices. Mavundla and Northbound Processing are the known examples. In each, the court was the party that caught the error. A full court of the Gauteng Division,...

On 28 July 2026, an earthquake measuring magnitude 7.1 struck Kumamoto Prefecture in southern Japan. The tremor, which the Japan Meteorological Agency has officially named the 2026 Kumamoto earthquake, forced roughly 300 000 residents to evacuate to shelters. A shopping mall partially collapsed, reportedly followed by an explosion believed to be caused by a gas leak, and rescue teams worked through the night searching for survivors. By the following morning, Japanese authorities confirmed 13...

Picture this: your HR team uses AI to shortlist candidates, your accounts team leans on it to review financial information, and the person at the next desk uses it to draft a contract clause or pull together research for a report, without noticing the mistake buried inside or a client chats to your AI-powered support bot, gets the wrong advice and acts on it. Who carries the blame? It's a question more South African professionals and businesses are being forced to ask in 2026, AI has become a...