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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
The PPI Bill or POPI was again debated by the the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee for Justice on 2 March 2010. Various issues were raised and debated. The final section of the minutes read as follows:
"The Chairperson expressed concern over the fact that the Committee was spending a lot of time ...
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
As many readers may know the Companies Act 71 of 2008 (a.k.a. The New Companies Act), was signed into law in April 2009. However, it has not yet been put into force.
It's been nearly a year since the Act was signed in as law, and there have been some developments. ...
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Sunday, March 28th, 2010
Many organisations that operate in South African and the United States are concerned about compliance with the Massachusetts data protection law. You can find out more about it here and here. And you can read it by clicking here. It is interesting to consider it in conjunction with the Protection ...
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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
Many people are asking why they need to be aware of and, comply with the Protection of Personal Information Bill (PPI Bill)? What are the risks associated with privacy? What is the impact on an organisation? What is the risk of non-compliance?
Well apart from it being a new law, it ...
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
Compliance with the law can be seen as a process that involves the following steps:
Be aware of the issue and applicable laws
Assess where you are (by doing assessments)
Determine the gap between your reality and compliance with the law (usually a gap analysis)
Find solutions to fill the gap
Implement solutions to ensure ...
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
The readability statistics of a document can be very interesting and can tell you a lot about a document. They are also very useful for determining whether a document is in plain language or not? Let us look at an example. Here are the readability statistics for a document before ...
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Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
How is plain language defined in South African law? What is the standard that one should use to decide whether a document is in plain language? What is plain and understandable language?
Although reference to plain and understandable language is made in various pieces of legislation, only very few expand on ...
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Saturday, December 12th, 2009
What happens when the price displayed is wrong? For example, the price displayed for a cell phone is R120 when it should be R1,200. The consumer sees R120 and thinks "Great, that is a good deal!" and decides to buy it for R120. the consumer gets to the till and ...
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
Many vendors experience the same problem. The sales people work hard to make a sale. It starts with identifying a prospect, then making contact, building a relationship, explaining the offering, reaching the decision maker, submitting a proposal and then finally hearing that the proposal has been accepted. The sale has ...
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
A modular approach should be followed. Each Customer Agreement should be made up of:
one or more Orders (this is defined to include a goods, licence, services or work order); and
Customer Relationship Terms.
All the commercial terms are in the Order and all the general terms are in the Customer Relationship Terms ...
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