A few years ago the business community was abuzz with the new Promotion to Access Information Act (PAIA). All businesses small and large had to comply with this act and submit a manual to some government department in Pretoria to remain legal and compliant.

Carrie-Anne from Cents and Accountability has reminded us again of this and if you own or run a small business in South Africa and have not yet written up and submitted your PAIA manual, please get it done. It is a once off process and should not take you long to get this sorted out.

I actually doubt that any of the 1000’s of envelopes received have ever been opened and filed but it is one of those necessary thing we need to do in order to do business in our country.

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