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Partners in trust

If digital signatures underpin modern business, LAWtrust is well placed to cash in. Its sale to Altron will also lay the foundations for its next phase of growth.

01 July 2021

LAWtrust is one of only two public certificate authorities in South Africa, which under the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act are the only ones that can issue advanced digital certificates. The other one is the Post Office. It’s a measure of the foresight of wife and husband founders Christi and Maeson Maherry, that they realised the power of a secure digital identity early on.

“The thing we understood was, you can be anyone you want to be on the internet,” says Maeson Maherry.

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