Archive · Legislation
All 10 archive entries filed under legislation, most recent first.
The National Treasury published the Draft Capital Flow Management Regulations 2026 for public comment in April 2026, replacing the Exchange Control Regulations of 1961 and bringing crypto assets formally inside South Africa's capital flow framework for the first time.
SEC Nigeria issued a rules exposure draft on 14 April 2026 setting a minimum paid-up share capital of N7.5 billion for Free Trade Zone Entities seeking to offer or issue shares on the Nigerian capital market, with a two-week comment window through the Rules Committee.
Public participation on the Draft Virtual Asset Service Providers Regulations 2026 closed on 10 April 2026, keeping Kenya on track to operationalise VASP licensing in 2026.
South Africa's National Treasury confirmed it will amend the Exchange Control Regulations to govern transfers of cryptocurrency to non-residents, per an April 2026 analysis published on Polity.
The National Treasury published the Draft Virtual Asset Service Providers Regulations 2026 for public consultation on 17 March 2026, the first implementing instrument under the VASP Act 2025.
Ghana's Virtual Asset Service Providers Act passed Parliament on 19 December 2025 and received presidential assent on 30 December, the third new standalone digital-asset statute on the continent inside three months, after Nigeria's ISA 2025 and Kenya's VASP Act 2025.
A year after Ethiopia enacted the Personal Data Protection Proclamation No.
Kenya's Virtual Asset Service Providers Act 2025, assented 15 October 2025 and in force from 4 November 2025, made Kenya the first East African country with standalone virtual asset legislation.
The NDPC's General Application and Implementation Directive 2025 (GAID), issued 20 March 2025 and effective 19 September 2025, is the instrument that turned the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023 into day-to-day compliance obligations: registration, lawful bases, data subject rights, cross-border transfer rules and enforcement mechanics.
Proclamation 1321/2024 carries penalties of up to 4% of turnover and prison terms, yet two years after publication in the Federal Negarit Gazette the ECA has issued none of its four planned implementing directives, opened no registration portal and brought no enforcement action that we could find.
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