Laws.Africa enables African governments to sustainably provide free access to reliable digital laws in a way that is user-friendly, accessible, educational and re-usable.
Laws.Africa is a not-for-profit organization based in Cape Town, South Africa.
>> We curate the laws of African countries and the African Union.
>> We develop cutting edge cloud software platforms that transform printed, MS Word and PDF documents into high-quality, machine-readable structured document databases.
>> We assist and capacitate partners in producing and using primary legal information for high-impact access-to-justice programming.
Explore Laws.Africa projects
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Digital African Gazettes
The largest digital collection of free African Gazettes.
99,000+ African gazettes (Jun 2022)
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API integrations
Use Laws.Africa’s broad collection of machine-readable African legislation (Akoma Ntoso XML) in your business, apps, research and analysis.
Comprehensive, continuously updated, and easy to integrate into your apps and machine learning pipelines.
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Software solutions
Our open law technology solutions simplify the creation, management, publication and distribution of legal information.
From low-level support libraries all the way up to turnkey legislation database systems, we cover all parts of the legal information management hierarchy.
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Open By-Laws South Africa
Municipal by-laws form part of the legal foundation for effective service delivery and cooperative communities. In many municipalities, however, the by-laws are out of date or difficult to find.
Open By-laws helps to solve this problem by working with a contributor community to put up-to-date by-laws online, freely available to everyone.