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New laws coming after spam calls in South Africa | SA News

Luke Fraser
 ·13 Jul 2025

South Africa faces a spam call epidemic, and new regulations are taking them on directly through changes to the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA).

The changes in question give consumers more authority when asking companies to get rid of their data, and places more responsibility on companies to ensure they have the necessary consent to have it at all.

Legal experts at Cliffe Dekker Hofmyer said that South Africans could be forgiven for feeling that every second call they receive is a spam call. 

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