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Seven practices to ensure compliance with SA’s POPI Act

The latest country to enact stringent data privacy legislation is South Africa, with the new Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI Act or POPIA). POPI sets a new standard for the processing of South African constituents' personal information by public and private bodies within and outside of the country’s borders. Organisations doing business in South Africa need to ensure their information security practices are updated to meet POPI compliance.

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Prof Vilakazi looks to build high-tech start-up ecosystem around Wits

Professor Zeblon Vilakazi, newly-appointed vice-chancellor and principal of the University of Witwatersrand. Photo credit: Wits University

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Comstor focuses on small business, security with new initiatives

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Demand for technology to decrypt SA drivers’ licences increases

During the COVID-19 lockdown, there has been an increased demand for technology solutions that make it easy to decrypt South African drivers’ licences.

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Lockdown leads to long-term retail trend changes

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Hands off Stella, ICT pressure group tells Parliament

Communications and digital technologies minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams.

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eBook: The seven leaps forward of new print production technology

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Digital readiness and how businesses are responding to the new normal

If the past few months have shown us anything, it’s that businesses everywhere are at different stages of digital readiness. We have all had to venture bravely into a “new normal” and adjust to a new, more remote, world of work and daily life. While this transition has been more natural for the companies who already had a strong digital strategy in place, it has been a challenge for those in the earlier stages of digital transformation.

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