Complying with RICA

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 ...

Recording conversations without consent

Friday, October 24th, 2008

I bet you did not know that it is lawful to monitor a phone conversation or even someone speaking in a room full of people without their consent to do so. This is something that recently happened to the Springbok (sorry Protea) rugby player Luke Watson. The Financial Mail ran a piece ...

Monitoring of Communications

Tuesday, September 25th, 2007

Employers often monitor employee communications in order to gather the evidence required to dismiss an employee fairly.  The law dealing with the monitoring and interception of employee communications is governed by the tongue-twistingly named Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication Related Information Act, 70 of 2002 ...