It is a chance to gain trust. As a business owner, whenever you obtain personal information from clients, employees and your service providers, there exists implied trust in your business that such personal information will be used for proper purposes
Read MoreAs a business owner, it is likely that you are receiving your fair share of invitations to utilise services of quick-fix tools to facilitate and simplify your path to comply with POPIA (Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013).
Read MoreAs if is not challenging enough that your business must deal with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) in the year of COVID-19, now enters IT specialists who advise you on compliance, know of things such as spear phishing
Read MoreWARNING BELLS FOR BUILDING CONSTRUCTION, BUILDERS AND THEIR CLIENTS Rabe Bouers CC v Chaya (2328/2015) [2020] ZALMPPHC 83 (30 October 2020) The Housing Consumers Protection Measures Act has a double-edged sword. If the home builder is not registered with the
Read MoreINCLUSIONARY HOUSING POLICIES: DOES THE SWORD CUT TWO WAYS? The purpose of an inclusionary housing programme is to increase the number of units built for low-income purchasers and to achieve the integration of socio-economic classes, simultaneously. No easy feat. In
Read MoreWHO LOGS IN ON THE GREEN BOND “TINDER” PLATFORM? Green bonds have historically been issued by multilateral lenders such as the World Bank, the African Development Bank and the European Investment Bank. Increasingly, large corporates have joined in to increase
Read MoreRECENT DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO THE SECTIONAL TITLES ACT: SOME FLEXIBILITY FOR DEVELOPERS In September this year, suggested amendments to the Sectional Titles Act (‘STA’) were gazetted. Some of these affect developers directly and should provide more flexibility to amend sectional title
Read MoreWe regularly find, at an initial consultation in respect of POPIA compliance, that clients are sceptical when we advise them that there is a lot of work to be done. The observation is often that, because their IT systems are continuously
Read MoreIn our Compliance Unit at STBB, I resist alarmist communication to business owners regarding their POPI or POPIA (the Protection of Personal Information Act) compliance obligations. It is indeed the large proverbial elephant that must be served and digested before
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