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The South African legislative environment plays a critical role in ensuring a level playing field for businesses, as well as ensuring a degree of assurance for investors. Business regulations are there to help and protect businesses, but many entrepreneurs find the administrative burden of compliance to be prohibitive. There is a need for more education on compliance requirements, and many entrepreneurs are unaware of their existence, so they cannot take advantage of the framework. However, this does not have to be the case.