Dear Subscribers,
Two updates for you this week: our detailed Gazette Watch briefing note and the regular Newsflash round-up. Here’s what’s in each.
BRIEFING NOTE: Gazette Watch — Detailed Notice Analysis (1–9 September 2026)
This is our notice-by-notice review of everything of compliance interest published in the Government Gazette this week — 21 notices in all, spanning aviation, anti-corruption (an SIU referral), customs and excise, electronic communications, environmental law, occupational health and safety, labour, medical regulation, petroleum pricing, property, marine transportation, and financial intelligence/AML.
A few worth diarising now:
- A new Financial Intelligence Centre directive fixes annual deadlines (9 or 31 October, depending on your institution type) for accountable institutions to submit their Risk Management and Compliance Programme.
- The Compensation Fund has issued a final reminder on outstanding Returns of Earnings, with non-compliant employers already blocked for audit.
- 4 November 2026 has been formally declared a public holiday for the local government elections — one to add to payroll calendars.
- The draft Leopard Conservation Strategy is the only notice in this batch with an open comment window, closing 4 October 2026.
Each notice in the briefing comes with a direct link to the gazette, the operative wording, and our seven-part analysis (legal basis, rationale, practical application, stakeholder implications, actions and conclusion). Please see the attached Briefing Note Gazette (01-09 September 2026) for the full detail on every notice.
NEWSFLASH: 04–09 September 2026
Our regular sweep of the week’s compliance-relevant news, covering B-BBEE, broadcasting, intellectual property, procurement, corruption and whistleblowing, customs, energy, labour, medical, property and transport law. Highlights include:
- The B-BBEE Commission’s fronting finding against Foskor over its employee share scheme
- ICASA opening inquiries into OTT and telecoms pricing, taking aim at Netflix, WhatsApp and the major networks
- The SIU flagging widespread ‘tender splitting’ in government procurement to dodge open tenders
- Whistleblower affidavits alleging senior Transnet executives were complicit in procurement irregularities
- Itac’s move to make anti-dumping duties on Chinese windscreens permanent
- A shake-up of energy efficiency standards and labelling for household appliances, plus scrutiny of prepaid electricity vendor mark-ups and Eskom’s softened (but not abandoned) solar registration stance
- MISA’s call for a worker-centred End-of-Life Vehicle framework
- Renewed scrutiny of unregistered rehab centres, and a brewing class action over a contraceptive packaging error
- Cape Town’s short-term rental by-law shaping up as a test case for the Western Cape
- Growing momentum behind a proposed zero blood-alcohol limit for motorists
As always, the full stories — with sources — are in the attached Newsflash (04 – 09 September 2026).
As ever, please treat both documents as monitoring and awareness material rather than legal advice, and confirm anything you intend to act on against the full text.
– Alison and The Legal Team