Crime

Get your house in order now, industry is warned

Consumers have rights, and they will have those rights set out in detail for them by October this year when the Consumer Protection Act (CPA), promulgated earlier in 2009, will come into force with an entire set of regulations attached. Provisions of the Act have been released so that businesses will have time to adjust their trading practices to comply. Although the regulations are still in the making, the time for looking at consumer rights and what to do about them, is now.

Is truck-jacking making an unwelcome return?

An intensive research programme, followed by a meticulously run crime prevention programme to solve the hijacking-crisis on South African roads, made major headway as statistics improved dramatically from 2002 to 2005.