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 | Johan Botes, Lauren Salt and Tracy Robbins The Protection of Personal Information Act, No 4 of 2013 (Act) regulates how anyone who processes personal information must handle, keep and secure that information. If an individual or a company processes personal information relating to a person, that individual or company must comply with the Act. Failure to comply with the Act may lead to the imposition of certain penalties under the Act. Read more >>
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 | Leana Engelbrecht The Namibian Competition Commission prohibited a proposed merger in terms of which Colas South Africa Proprietary Limited and Road Contractor Company (RCC) Limited were to acquire equal shareholding in Guinea Fowl Investments (which would be renamed Oryx Surfacing Proprietary Limited). Read more >>
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 | Graeme Palmer As governments around the world come under pressure to collect tax to meet their growing needs and budget deficits there has been an increase in cross-border co-operation between tax authorities. Read more >>
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 | Linda Ensor Parliament's trade and industry portfolio committee has requested permission from the National Assembly to introduce changes to the National Credit Amendment Bill that were not in the original bill tabled by the Department of Trade and Industry. Read more >>
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 | The size of a chicken mattered so much to a Durban customer he allegedly attacked the manager of a chicken outlet with a panga. Read more >>
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 | Correctional Services Minister Sibusiso Ndebele has assured South Africans that any official found guilty in the "Waterkloof Two" video saga will face the full might of the law. Read more >>
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 | Glenda Nevill The Master of the High Court in Cape Town has authorised a warrant for the arrest of Anthony (Tony) Vaughan, director of Media Nova and various other publishing companies. Read more >>
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 | LontohCoal has filed a R112 million lawsuit in the Southern Gauteng High Court and a R9.3 billion lawsuit in the state of New York against former City Press reporter, Mpho Sibanyoni and Naspers respectively. Read more >>
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 | A report produced by Cerebra and Consilium Legal Services addresses the impact that the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI) has on how to run one's social media activities. Read more >>
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 | In recent months, the Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) has made it clear that it intends to streamline and align legislation and step up enforcement of the requirements to hold environmental authorisations under the National Environmental Management Act, No 107 of 1998 (NEMA) and waste management licences under the National Environmental Management: Waste Act, No 59 of 2008 (Waste Act). Read more >>
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 | The Pan South African Language Board owes South African Revenue Service, (SARS) R3.3m, mainly in PAYE tax deducted from employees. It also owes its suppliers more than R13m. Read more >>
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 | Jacques van Wyk, Andre van Heerden and Unesu Moyo Can an employee who has a genuine cultural belief that she should attend a training course unrelated to her work or suffer illness, even death, be dismissed for misconduct if her application for leave was rejected by her employer and she refused a direct instruction to return to work? Read more >>
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 | The draft Immigration Regulations, which were published for comment on 14 February 2014, mean that employers will now also be faced with further amendments to the legal landscape in relation to expatriate employees. Read more >>
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 | Business law firm Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr has once again taken top honours in the DealMakers Awards for having advised on more mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals than any other law firm in South Africa. Read more >>
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 | NEW YORK, USA: Apple and its South Korean rival Samsung will return to court next month after failing to agree on a settlement to end a legal battle over patents in the United States. Read more >>
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 | SAN FRANCISCO, USA: A lawsuit filed this week accuses Ethiopia of infecting a US man's computer with "spyware" as part of a campaign to gather intelligence about those critical of the government. Read more >>
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 | WASHINGTON, USA: AT&T said that a secretive US court ordered data be handed to it from more than 35,000 customers in six months as the telecommunications company released its first "transparency report." Read more >>
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 | The Department of Social Development has called on all non-profit organisations (NPOs) that are registered with the department, and haven't submitted their annual reports, to do so by March 31 in order to avoid being deregistered. Read more >>
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 | The government has spent more than R6m on legal fees to fight public and political opposition against e-tolls. Read more >>
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 | President Jacob Zuma says he was touched by IFP Member of Parliament, Mario Oriani-Ambrosini's impassioned plea, to have marijuana decriminalised. Read more >>
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 | The Gauteng Provincial Government is confident that its integrated approach to social crime prevention is delivering positive results. Read more >>
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 | Franny Rabkin Defence Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula acted in bad faith when she dismissed Armscor chairman Maomela Motau and his deputy Refiloe Mokoena‚ said Armscor's counsel in the Constitutional Court on Monday. Read more >>
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