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Reports in this week’s media of a cybersecurity breach of the South African Police Service’s website are a foretaste of bigger and more damaging information security breaches to come.
South Africa’s Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (“CCMA”) has accepted in recent cases that employees may be dismissed for posting false, derogatory remarks about their employers or employers clients on Facebook, Twitter or other social networks or blogs, as
The South African Department of Communications (“DoC”) published a draft of the proposed National Broadband Policy for South Africa (“the Policy”) on 03 April 2013.
Endemol South Africa (“Endemol SA”) produces Big Brother Africa, a successful pan-African reality television program.
In today’s modern era of media and technology, popular well-known celebrity figures take great pride in their image and for the most part, are obsessive compulsive about who may exploit their images and at what cost.
The newly formed Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (“CIPC”), established “with the aim of promoting growth, employment, innovation, stability, good governance, confidence and international competitiveness.”
More often than not, contractual litigation and dispute always involve small businesses you often opt to do business with, resulting from poorly drafted service level agreements or none at all.
Endemol Netherlands owns all rights in a very successful reality television series called “Big Brother”. In 2003, Endemol South Africa (“Endemol SA”) produced the pan-African of the Big Brother series for broadcaster M-Net / MultiChoice Africa.
In the fast paced and ever changing society in which South Africans live and work, we are constantly bombarded with advertising via different media such as television, billboards and radio.
Reports in this week’s media of a cybersecurity breach of the South African Police Service’s website are a foretaste of bigger and more damaging information security breaches to come.
South Africa’s Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (“CCMA”) has accepted in recent cases that employees may be dismissed for posting false, derogatory remarks about their employers or employers clients on Facebook, Twitter or other social networks or blogs, as
The South African Department of Communications (“DoC”) published a draft of the proposed National Broadband Policy for South Africa (“the Policy”) on 03 April 2013.
Endemol South Africa (“Endemol SA”) produces Big Brother Africa, a successful pan-African reality television program.
In today’s modern era of media and technology, popular well-known celebrity figures take great pride in their image and for the most part, are obsessive compulsive about who may exploit their images and at what cost.
The newly formed Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (“CIPC”), established “with the aim of promoting growth, employment, innovation, stability, good governance, confidence and international competitiveness.”
More often than not, contractual litigation and dispute always involve small businesses you often opt to do business with, resulting from poorly drafted service level agreements or none at all.
Endemol Netherlands owns all rights in a very successful reality television series called “Big Brother”. In 2003, Endemol South Africa (“Endemol SA”) produced the pan-African of the Big Brother series for broadcaster M-Net / MultiChoice Africa.
In the fast paced and ever changing society in which South Africans live and work, we are constantly bombarded with advertising via different media such as television, billboards and radio.

Can you fire someone for their Facebook / Twitter posts??

South Africa’s Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (“CCMA”) has accepted in recent cases that employees may be dismissed for posting false, derogatory remarks about their employers or employers clients on Facebook, Twitter or other social networks or blogs, as these posts might harm the ongoing employment relationship, bring the employers name into disrepute and may equate to a form of misconduct.

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