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            <description><![CDATA[At a media briefing on 31 August 2026, the Information Regulator disclosed that it has received more than 8 000 security compromise notifications since the enforcement provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act took effect, including over 1 220 in the financial year that began on 1 April 2026, with roughly 3 000 projected by year end. The causes it identified were not exotic. Inadequate security controls, employee negligence, weak passwords and ransomware accounted for the bulk of ...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Parks Tau says he is encouraged by the findings of a comprehensive study by multilateral public development institution the World Bank on South Africa’s Special Economic Zones (SEZ) programme. Tau says the study has found that the country has the infrastructure, legal framework and institutional capacity to build a leading SEZ programme.]]></description>
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