Giving SA's Protection of Personal Information Act (Popia) teeth, SA's Information Regulator has issued the Department of Basic Education (DBE) with an enforcement notice for a privacy violation, writes Legalbrief. Civil society group AfriForum, however, says it will ... Read More
A woman has won a first-of-its-kind ruling in the Gauteng High Court (Johannesburg) after she successfully sued a couple for distributing revenge porn about her on Facebook. A Daily Maverick report says the court awarded her R192 000 in damages ... Read More
Communications & Digital Technologies Minister Solly Malatsi said the ministry and portfolio committee have agreed to identify issues of primary concern with the SABC Bill and develop a timeline for the reintroduction of the Bill within a year. The Star ... Read More
The Portfolio Committee on Police last week welcomed the progress in rolling out the integrated and online Firearm Control Management System (FCMS), set to replace the issue-laden Enhanced Firearm Registry System. A Cape Times report notes that one of the ... Read More
The future of the SABC Bill has erupted into an political row that reveals the tensions and strengths of the GNU. It started when the new Minister of Communications & Digital Technologies Solly Malatsi said he had withdrawn the ‘fatally flawed’ ... Read More
* The SABC says it will not be conducting any investigation into alleged manipulation on Ukhozi FM’s Song-of-the-year contest, as the process is audited to ensure that all is above board. SABC spokesperson Mmoni Seapolelo was responding to queries following the ... Read More
* After abusing her knowledge of the bank’s digital operating systems, FNB employee Lusanda Qose fraudulently accessed a client’s online profile and manipulated his accounts to give herself full access to his funds and illegally withdrew more than R240 000. Qose ... Read More
* Liquid Intelligent Technologies and the Western Cape Government have renewed their partnership to continue expanding the proliferation of connectivity in the province, which has, in turn, enabled the ‘Citizen-centric Digital Transformation’. Over R2bn will be invested over the next seven ... Read More
Wits relaunches planetarium Wits University, in partnership with Anglo American, have relaunched the old Johannesburg Planetarium as the Wits Anglo American Digital Dome, after major refurbishments. Wits has noted that the new Digital Dome is the largest of its kind in ... Read More
Seven-year-old-coder headhuntedA Russian software company has invited a seven-year-old coding prodigy to join its management team as soon as he is old enough to take up paid employment. Sergey from the Russian city of St Petersburg has built a name ... Read More
