by VDT Attorneys | May 20, 2021 | Business, Commercial, Company, Compliance, Information, Information and data protection, information officer, PAIA, POPI, POPI Act, POPIA
As the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 (“POPIA”) deadline of 1 July 2021 approaches rapidly, many organisations are starting to raise questions about the more intricate aspects of POPIA. An important aspect relates to the role and...
by VDT Attorneys | Apr 16, 2021 | Compliance, Data privacy, Data Protection, POPI Act, POPIA
You are correct in assuming that you will need to comply with the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) if you obtain and use personal information of your clients, including also ensuring that third parties that you pass such information on to, also comply. ...
by VDT Attorneys | May 23, 2019 | Compliance, Skills development
A WSP is an organisation’s articulated training plan for the period in question, that relates to the training and development initiatives that need to be undertaken during the year. In turn, an ATR is a report on actual training and development initiatives completed...
by VDT Attorneys | Feb 19, 2019 | Business, Commercial, Company, Compliance, Corporate, Data Protection, Information and data protection, PAIA, POPI, POPIA
Amongst other things, the POPI Regulations shed further light on what the duties and responsibilities of an Information Officer are. POPI defines an Information Officer as follows: in relation to a public body: an Information Officer or Deputy Information...
by VDT Attorneys | Nov 9, 2018 | BEE, Commercial, Compliance, Minerals, Mining
The long-awaited Mining Charter 2018 or Mining Charter III (“MCIII”) has been signed by the Minister of Mineral Resources on 26 September 2018. MCIII is immediately effective and applicable to all mining companies in South Africa. MCIII contains a few vital concepts...
by VDT Attorneys | Nov 9, 2018 | Commercial, Compliance, Consumer, Information, Privacy
The Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 (“POPIA”) aims to protect your constitutional right to privacy by ensuring that your personal information is processed in a manner that ensures its confidentiality and that your privacy is respected. Although the...
