The case for eDiscovery The world is awash with data and has officially entered the Zettabyte era[1]. Hundreds of billions of emails are sent/received on a daily basis and it has been calculated that more than 97% of business documents are created electronically. South Africa is not immune nor exempt from the digital revolution. In short, the very nature of what constitutes information and documentary evidence, types and sources, and how they are dealt with has changed. eDiscovery is right here right now It is against this backdrop that the publication of A Guide to eDiscovery in South Africa by Terry Harrison and Ismail Hussain SC,[2] will prove to be invaluable in answering the question, “How can South African lawyers understand and embrace electronic documents and deal with their discovery in the 21st century?”