The Information Regulator, charged with overseeing, amongst others, enforcement of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 4 of 2013 (“POPIA”) intends looking into the practice of security officers at gated office parks, residential estates, and the like, of scanning visitors’ driver’s license cards prior to admission to the property.
For the last few months, the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality (“the City”) has adopted a new practice of including a generic notification at the very bottom of every customer’s monthly municipal statements, which warn that in the event of non-payment, cut off will follow.
Auditor-General (AG) Tsakani Maluleke on Tuesday, 27 August, called on all roleplayers in the accountability ecosystem to “work deliberately and with urgency” towards a culture of performance, accountability, transparency and institutional integrity to ultimately result in a better life for the people of South Africa.
SAPOA and the City of Tshwane held a high-level business breakfast on Tuesday 20th August 2024 at the Centurion Country Club. The event was facilitated at the request of the Tshwane Economic Development Agency, known as TEDA, which recently took up membership of SAPOA.
Meter tampering, the sneaky art of tweaking utility meters to bend the rules, is a serious criminal offence that the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality doesn’t take lightly. But what happens when things go wrong and the customer is wrongly accused of having tampered?
Johannesburg’s residents know all too well how much their city has been looted and neglected. They also know how to fix it, and a new mayor must work with them to bring it back from the brink.