The Protection of Personal Information Act, Act #4 of 2013 (POPIA) came into effect in its entirety almost a year ago on 1 July 2021 and the Information Regulator (IR) indicated that applications for the appointment of the Information Officer (IO) needed [...]

ARTICLE BY ADV LOUIS NEL MARCH 11 2020 I doubt there is any person who is not aware of the Corona/Covid 19 Virus ('CV'). It has overtaken power outages/load shedding as the main topic of discussion and distressed hand-wringing [...]

Even when statement may on first blush ('prima facie') appear to be defamatory and may in fact be so (in which case it will be deemed to be wrongful and with intention to injure - Media 24 v Khumalo), there are [...]

ADV. LOUIS NEL By now we know that the main culprit (usually!) is the party how pronounces the dreaded words verbally, in writing or by gesture, etc. We also know that the party using social media who 'repeats'/shares it [...]

ADV. LOUIS NEL DAMAGES Social media use has led to numerous lawsuits both in South Africa and abroad. In the UK, Chris Cairns, a New Zealand cricketer, won a lawsuit against Lalit Modi, the former chairman of the Indian [...]