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            <title>A charge by any other name would smell as sweet</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The Labour Appeal Court’s judgment in Machi v Chep SA (Pty) Ltd and Others serves as an important reminder that workplace discipline is concerned with substance rather than technicalities. While employees are entitled to know the case they must meet, disciplinary proceedings are not criminal trials, and imperfectly drafted charges will not necessarily save an employee whose conduct fundamentally undermines the trust relationship. The employee was employed by Chep as a Senior Human Resources ...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[As South Africa commemorates Heritage Month under the theme "Celebrating Our Living Heritage: Strengthening the Ties That Bind Us", we are reminded that our collective identity extends beyond cultural practices, traditions, and languages. As a constitutional democracy, our heritage is also defined by the foundational democratic values of human dignity, equality, and freedom. The preamble to South Africa's Constitution explicitly sets our collective national mandate as establishing a society ...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[When we speak about heritage, we often think about what we have inherited. Our languages, cultures, traditions, music, cuisine, and stories all form part of the heritage that makes South Africa unique. However, heritage is not only what we inherit. It is also what we leave behind. This question is particularly important to consider during Heritage Month, in a year in which South Africa marks 70 years since the historic Women’s March of 1956 and 30 years since the formal adoption of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996. These are milestones that remind us of where we come from and of the society we are building for our children.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[As South Africa commemorates Heritage Month under the theme “Celebrating Our Living Heritage: Strengthening the Ties That Bind Us”, we are reminded that our collective identity extends beyond cultural practices, traditions, and languages. As a constitutional democracy, our heritage is also defined by the foundational democratic values of human dignity, equality, and freedom. The preamble to South Africa’s Constitution explicitly sets our collective national mandate as including the ...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Litigation may require parties to disclose documents, but that does not give them carte blanche to collect, process and share personal information. South Africa’s discovery rules and the Protection of Personal Information Act (“POPIA”) must operate alongside one another and getting that balance wrong can create regulatory risk even while complying with court procedures. In any civil litigation process, parties are expected to lay their cards on the table by producing relevant documents and allowing the court to adjudicate on the full evidentiary record. However, since POPIA became fully operational, litigants have had to confront a question their European counterparts have grappled with for over a decade: how does one reconcile the breadth of discovery obligations with the discipline of data protection?]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The notice is usually brief. Your customer has entered business rescue, a business rescue practitioner has been appointed, and creditors will shortly be invited to submit their claims. What the notice does not tell you is whether you should stop supplying goods or services, what happens to the invoices already outstanding, whether you can cancel your supply contract, or whether the next order you fulfil will ever be paid.]]></description>
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            <title>Cybercrime across borders: Navigating Africa’s fragmented legislative landscape – Part 2</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In Part one of this series, we detailed the disparity amongst the African countries in mainly Southern Africa and the various approaches to cybersecurity. Unfortunately, this creates a uncertainty for many multi-jurisdictional entities operating across the African continent on how to best approach the issue of cybersecurity when there are discrepancies in the promulgation of legislation targeted at addressing this very issue. In the second and final part of this series, we focus specifically on ...]]></description>
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            <title>Cybercrime across borders: Navigating Africa’s fragmented legislative landscape – Part 1</title>
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            <description><![CDATA[By the time you reach the end of this sentence, a cyberattack will have been launched somewhere on the African continent. That is not an exaggeration, but rather what has become the new reality on the African continent. Across Africa, financial services are digitising at speed, through mobile banking, cross-border insurance platforms and digital payment ecosystems, creating an attack surface of remarkable breadth and complexity. The laws meant to combat cybercrime and protect the institutions and people who rely on those services, however, remain patchy at best.]]></description>
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