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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
You must comply with the Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000 (PAIA), because it applies to all organisations.
The word cloud on the right provides an overview of the PAI Act. From the word cloud you can see that:
the most important theme is access
the main role players are ...
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
People often ask us to provide an overview of an ICT law - the big picture. It is often very difficult to do this effectively. Recently we found a great web based tool called Wordle. Worlde enables you to create word clouds. A word cloud is like a tag ...
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Monday, August 24th, 2009
On the one hand, virtually every organisation processes personal information - it is an important part of business. Up until now, there have been very few laws and regulations that an organisation had to comply with. That is about to change. Organisations will still be able to process personal ...
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Friday, August 14th, 2009
There are many benefits to be gained by managing your emails properly. These are some of them:
the ability to automatically migrate the emails to other storage media, thereby making the email servers more efficient and users more productive;
the ability to make the email system serve as an organisational knowledge store, ...
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Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Find out about the cyber crimes that exist in South African law and how they affect you or your business. Our law recognises the criminal threat that exists to cyberspace and as a result cyber crimes were introduced into our law by Chapter XIII of the Electronic Communications and Transactions ...
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Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
RICA EXPLAINED - a guide to the Act
South Africa has followed international trends with the enactment of the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication Related Information Act 70 of 2002 ("RICA") which finally came into effect on 30 September 2005. RICA is the piece of legislation ...
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Thursday, April 30th, 2009
The President of South African signed the Consumer Protection Act Act on 24 April 2009 and it was published in the government gazette on 29 April 2009. The official statement made by the Department of Trade and Industry is worth reading.
I attended a presentation on the Consumer Protection Act recently. ...
Posted in Alerts, Consumer Protection, Guides, Plain Language | 6 Comments »
Sunday, March 1st, 2009
We focus on the law related to ICT:
Information - (or data) in paper or electronic format
Communication - in person or electronically (electronic communications), in writing or voice, telecommunications, and broadcasting
Information technology (IT) - including software, hardware and electronics
Communications technology - including protocols, software and hardware
By law we mean laws, rules, ...
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Friday, October 17th, 2008
Yes, you can issue bills (invoices, credit and debit notes) electronically instead of in paper format. But there are some legal requirements that have to be met. Failure to meet the legal requirements can invalidate your bills and result in a fine or penalty. The requirements set out by SARS ...
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
What are the rights of employees who previously carried out services that have been outsourced? Is there any right to consultation or compensation, do the rules apply to all employees within the jurisdiction?
Where services are outsourced, employees' services are terminated due to ‘operational requirements'. This ...
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