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Spring Forest, but recent case law has introduced an element of uncertainty. To recap, the section 13(Signature) of the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act (ECTA) provides as follows: Advertisement (1) Where the signature of a person is required by law and such law does not specify the type of signature, that requirement in relation to a data message is met only if an advanced electronic signature is used. (2) Subject to subsection (1), an electronic signature is not without legal force and effect merely on the grounds that it is in electronic form. Advertisement (3) Where...

Zane Kilian is one of the accused in the September 2020 assassination of former Anti-Gang Unit (AGU) section head Lieutenant-Colonel Charl Kinnear in Cape Town. One of Kilian’s co-accused is alleged underworld kingpin, Nafiz Modack. On Monday 24 May, Western Cape High Court judge Ashley Binns-Ward dismissed Kilian’s bail appeal application. The ruling ratified an earlier decision by magistrate Nonkosi Saba on 18 March 2020 denying Kilian bail. Although Kilian was not the person who shot Kinnear in front of his house in Gearing Street, Bishop Lavis, on 18 September 2020, the state contends...

May 20, 2021 Retail banks are under increasing pressure to innovate and personalize their products and services for the benefit of their customers, yet at the same time they are subject to rapidly developing laws and regulations concerning the protection and processing of their customers’ personal data. By Chantel van Zyl, senior sssociate, and Janet MacKenzie, partner and head of the technology, media and telecommunications practice at Baker McKenzie, Johannesburg The Deloitte Future of Retail Banking Report (2020) noted that progress in other industries – for example in retail (tailored...

May 19, 2021 Comments on government’s controversial proposed data policy – the Draft National Policy on Data and Cloud, released on 1 April 2021 – were due yesterday (18 May). The policy, in which the government will become co-owner of all data generated in South Africa (SA), has already attracted widespread debate amongst commentators, with many saying that it raises issues around privacy and has the potential to scare off much needed investment into the sector. But, it may be too soon to label the bill a help or hindrance. Aspects of the policy are encouraging, particularly proposals ...

A SSA employee accused of R1.1m fraud has failed to appear in court . An SSA employee accused of defrauding the intelligence agency of more than R1.1 million failed to appear in court on Monday.  It is alleged the accused had gone into isolation after coming into contact with someone who tested positive for SARS-CoV2.  The State alleged Thuso Leonard Oesi defrauded the SSA by creating fictitious payments for training he never attended, but pocketed the money instead.  A criminal case against a State Security Agency (SSA) employee - who has been charged with more than t...