When was rica implemented

Mr Matila said that there was a problem in the way the information was to be presented. Members of the media were present at the meeting. He would agree to the meeting being held in camera if this was a problem. The rules of Parliament did make provision for closed meetings.

The Committee had not sent the networks a template as to what information would be needed, although it was clear that certain information would be sensitive. Members had reached consensus earlier that the focus should be on the number of unregistered subscribers.

He could not find persuasive grounds for a closed meeting unless pricing was an issue. Mr Watson said that the Committee should also hear what the legal opinion was. Mr Madzonga said that he would agree to proceed with the presentation without disclosing the numbers of subscribers. He would, however, share the information required confidentially with the Committee.

It was spending more than R million a month on the campaign. It was continuing to invest in efforts to reach all subscribers. MTN had taken its campaign to stadiums and shopping malls. These vehicles travelled the country with the particular goal of getting young people to register. Prizes were on offer as incentives. MTN had established 6 points of presence around the country. Its initiatives included visiting hostels, bars and gymnasiums, door-to-door campaigns and being present at DHA offices.

It had advertised on radio and television. Mr Madzonga said that MTN had also established an online system to assist customers. It had invested a lot in the system. It provided information on where the concentrations of unregistered subscribers were.

A concerted effort could then be made to target these groups. There was a challenge in the rural areas. One thing that might help would be the design of a simpler affidavit to declare the subscriber's residence.

MTN Zoners had been despatch to various areas to register people. Mr Madzonga replied that the MTN buses had toured the province. Advertisements had been placed on community radio stations. Mr Matila reminded the MTN delegation that it would have to supply the required information.

Mr Bloem commented that in his view, MTN had provided an empty presentation. Cell C had given some information on statistics and progress. Mr Madzonga said that it would also have been restricted to percentages. More detail on the total subscriber base could only be made public knowledge on 9 March Mr Matila said that both presentations had provided insufficient information.

Mr Madzonga replied that he would forward the information to the Committee the following day. Mr Bloem was still unhappy. At least Cell C had tried to inform the Members, and had been dealt with harshly for their troubles. There was a challenge, in that it had taken longer for customers to appreciate the importance of being registered. It was also a challenge to reach the rural areas. Customers, especially those on contracts, were under the impression that all their relevant details had already been captured.

Most prepaid subscribers could not furnish proof of residence. Stores or schools were given as addresses. A creative solution was still needed. The operator respected the law and would disconnect those subscribers who were not registered. Many packages were sold by informal traders. There was general apathy.

South Africans were known to react at the last minute, as evidenced by the eleventh hour rush to obtain the new style driver's licences. Mr Nyoka described some of the initiatives undertaken by Vodacom in December and January. Permanent RICA sites had been established in the rural areas.

There were many walk-in centres at shopping malls and all Vodacom outlets and agencies. An advertising campaign was planned. There would be competitions and prizes to foster awareness of RICA. The efforts to date had been reasonably successful. The information gathered was helping Vodacom to know its customers better.

Daily registrations had increased from 8 in November to 9 in December. Mr Nyoka said that there were still just over three million prepaid and contract customers that had to be registered. Vodacom needed to increase its efforts. RICA registration was done as a matter of course when contracts were renewed. Letters and SMS messages would be sent to customers. Groups of one thousand unregistered subscribers would be identified and centres would be set up in those areas.

The operator would use all methods at its disposal. The law enforcement agencies had initiated RICA, and Vodacom would have no choice but to disconnect those subscribers who had not registered before the deadline. Purpose of monitoring policy and compliance documentation Whilst obtaining written consent to monitoring under section 5 is the first prize, the company will in all probability not be able to get written consent from all employees.

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Learn More Accept. South Africa. Government, Public Sector. To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq. Justice Madlanga, for the majority, found that RICA fails to: provide for safeguards to ensure that a judge designated in terms of section 1 to hear applications for interception is sufficiently independent independence of designated Judge. The interception of communications is generally prohibited even by the Government , unless an interception direction is obtained from a designated Judge in accordance with the procedures set out in RICA.

The court examined the procedure for the appointment of a designated Judge under RICA and held that this procedure indicates that there is a 'lack of structural, operational and perceived independence of the designated Judge' and that 'this lack of structural independence may also lead to a reasonable perception of lack of independence' paragraph 93 ; provide for notifying the subject of surveillance of the fact of her or his surveillance as soon as notification can be given without jeopardising the purpose of surveillance after surveillance has been terminated post-surveillance notification.

The court held that the lack of post-surveillance notification deprives the subject of the possibility of challenging the lawfulness of an interception direction as these directions 'are applied for, granted and implemented in complete secrecy' paragraph The court further held that this 'facilitate[s] the abuse of the process under the cloak of secrecy' paragraph 44 and that there was no legitimate reason why the State would want to keep the fact of past surveillance a secret in perpetuity.

RICA registration is now an unconstitutional privacy evasion law passed by the south African government. RICA secrecy bill, communications act is to make it easier for the government to intercept or spy on those they deem an enemy. Please note that the country does not have any enemies worth mentioning. The enemies of the republic is now anyone they take interest in, and will actually be the following:.

Because this RICA and its true uses are unconstitutional, undemocratic, criminal and downright ridiculous, they do the following to convince you to swallow this rubbish:. You will obey our law, and we will legislate anything we like.

We will now arrest paedophiles etc. You will make SA a better place. This is the most unbelievable part of all. Only the dumbest criminal will be caught out from RICA tracking. They hijack cars to use in bank robberies to avoid being identified. If anything this will promote an increase in cell phone muggings for criminal use. Secondly, RICA cannot be effective on crime because of other loopholes besides stolen cell phones.

My favourite example that no RICA agent can contest, is you can get a cell contract from Zimbabwe etc, and set it to international roaming, thereby using your mobile without doing the RICA crap.

More crime. Many people do not have the paperwork required. So what is my point? I think not. You will have a few more years of deadline extensions. There is no hurry to comply. Another loophole making crime fighting a joke. Spam heaven is waiting for your cell number.

It happened. So you want to RICA register and make it easier for them to view your assets and home attached to your politically incorrect surname, for the next step in distribution review? Mabe the South African Secret Service will ethically judge and review each target to be spied on and grant access responsibly, based on criminal threat and not political motive? HAHA now im laughing. Did you know the boss of the SA secret service is Mo Shaik?

Yes, google it! The brother of convicted criminal Shabir Shaik, who is above the law and does not need to serve his jail sentence. Enough said there. For them business is business and money is money. It is their official statement that if you have a contract with them, and are cut off due to not registering not likely they will still demand their money for the duration of your contract even tho you will not be able to use your mobile or their services.

This basically outlines their ethics. This is also where it gets interesting. We just need one person with some backing to challenge this in a court as a business ethics case, possibly involving a communication ombudsman. If this case is won, which it should, it will require all service providers to release all contract holders from paying their contract durations while being cut off the service. This precedent will result in millions of rands lost in revenue for them.

They will more likely pay you a few million to keep quiet and not make this case challenge public. Do nothing. Do not register as it shall not be in your interests. Personally I will not register before I get cut off, which I believe will not happen on December 31 As we speak the major service providers are in urgent talks with government to extend the deadline once again.

Personally I do not believe this can be implemented in the next three years. If I do ever get cut off the service and decide to then register not before they cut me off if ever for the sake of cell phone use, I shall go the route of the informal dweller and supply an affidavit type letter from a church stating I live in the shack behind the liquor store. The service provider is happy to accept this, as it meets requirements of registration, and most of all they do not want to lose you as a customer.

This way you have not taken it in the bum and handed your details over to those corrupt officials in government that you may not share political views with. I am ask to phone , to arrange for the payment of this amount into my bank account. Is this a scam? If they are listening is on us, Who is Listening in on them…. I do believe that this is a short-Cutt for the already poor policing here in South Africa. The biggest criminal who steal million from the republic are those with suits, their corruption goes unpunished.

It will continue too , Until we the people stand up against it. I am curious. Who do you work for, if I may ask? Judging by the comments here the government did a piss poor job of tell people what exactly RICA entails, maybe its time for a follow up post.

Thank you for your reply. I do appreciate your post, and your opinions. Posts like these at least get people talking, and some may find it informative. Thank you. Running Wolf: hey my rica starter pack got stolen and i didnt even open it or use it i dont even know my cell number what do i do to safe guard my self, and is the a number to contact rica?

I am coming to SA on holiday and wanted to buy a sim card for use while I am there — will I need to provide details of my address? I have 14 sim cards for as many countries and I have never been asked for an address! Something dodgy going on here! The first thing that comes to mind is the brutal disregard for one of our fundamental human right to privacy.

How is it possable that the goverment can allow let alone inforce it by law this basic human right to be violated like this. It seems that not enough thought was given to exactly what this law can cause.

Think about this: If private comunications can be intercepted at will, who can gaurrantee that your private information will remain private? What about your bank details ect, send to you by e-mail.

What about the possability of identity theft? What if your private information gets into the wrong hands. Nobody, not even the goverment or the police should have the right to invade your privacy like this.

If you are suspected of criminal activity, a court should decide whether or not enough proof exists to allow for such invation or not. We all want to stop crime, and this might be a way to help, but it does have the potential to achieve the absolute opposate results with desasterous consequinses.

I feel this is a dangerous law and it should be challanged in the appropriate courts! Uh, Im sure he would just check the number of the sms and compare with his gf to see who it is instead of going to all that trouble of inquiring with rica.. When is South Africa ever gonna learn that they are far behind in conspiracy. But to have a cellular phone you have to RICA. How can our information leak out like this? People handling our information, are they trustworthy?

I thought that this was only for sim cards. No where is there a number oir web site for RICA, so there is no one to give anybody answers. I called the helpdesk number that is on the RICA machines and it is an automated answer with options and both options told me to refer to the store manager. Just another waste of money?????

I can buy a simcard here for 40p and do not want the phoine company to have my details so avoiding spam txt messages which plague contract customers.

This is total nonsense, if I was a criminal I would just steal a phone then dump it after the crime so leaving someone else to be prosecuted!! When was the closing date to rica cause my mom stil receive msgs that they wil diactivate her sim nd i registered it. Actually, this new law is really gonna suck off our freedom and every negative point on this blog, but this RICA thing is totaly true….

Cause, we gonna get disconnected… We can debate it all lifetime, there is really nothing we can do but it and its really sad and I must say personally I am sceptical of it.

Who is regulating the regulators? It seems like our personal information is being sold to the highest bidder and there is nothing we can do about it. What are you prepared to do?! Okay folks its time to take this Government on. I have just received an sms advising I have won R If you dial it from the the sms the call goes to another number..

On speaking to Martin A Nigerian I assume I asked him for his physical address to collect my prize, he asked me for my cell number, I stated he should know this and can verify on my arrival of collection at his address of my appreciated price. SOOOO time consuming to speak to intellects. What is the point of RICA?? Non the less this is Fraud, the Government made it compulsory for all sim cards to be RICA, we have a bill of rights and a Constitution.

Who ever is custodian of our RICA information has to be taken to task on this and issue. A Criminal case of Fraud to the registered against this person irrespective of the fact that it could be stolen or what ever.

The GSM who controls this number must be held accountable as this number should be terminated immediately if being used in fraud or such cases. Verified on Hello Peter and Scam sites????? NO they are protected by this very Government. Only hassle is your going to have to spend a bomb to even get heard. Maybe we need to look at a class action suit…. My phone was stolen before and when i called my service provider to block it without the IMEI number they told me they cannot block it because it showed that more than 1 SIM card was used on the phone which my SIM card was in.

Now if they know what SIM card is used on the phone then surely RICA can help track down who will use my phone after it was stolen right????? RICA is not an organization. How does one check out numbers when sent eMails. Hi Eugene. Unfortunately RICA is not an institution that can be contactable, its legislation. Ref RSA. After two hours I phoned her again but there was no answer, except a machine which denied the existence of such a person.

The following day I phoned again, still no answer. I want to find out from you, whether this is a kind of a scam. Please do something about this because one day people will be robbed their money Thank you Seate Cell: Contact Rica Helpline for payment I phoned this Nr.

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