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DMA warns against 'hysteria'

The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) of SA on Monday, 1 August 2011, defended its ability to manage the national opt-out registry the Consumer Protection Act (CPA) requires after coming under extensive fire last week.

1 Aug 2011

CEO Brian Mduli says the organisation has been the "target of malicious attacks on its credibility with outside parties making claims in a bid to compromise the DMA's good standing with the National Consumer Commission (NCC) ahead of a hotly contended tender process".

Continue reading the full story, as well as opinion piece Flawed poll gives DMA reason to blush, on www.TechCentral.co.za.

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