Comply with South Africa's POPIA
What is POPIA?
The Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA) is South Africa's data protection law. It came into full force on July 1, 2021 and is enforced by the Information Regulator. POPIA governs how "responsible parties" (the equivalent of controllers) process personal information, and it is built on eight conditions for lawful processing: accountability, processing limitation, purpose specification, further-processing limitation, information quality, openness, security safeguards, and data-subject participation.
Roles, rights, and breaches
Organizations must designate and register an information officer with the Information Regulator, maintain appropriate security safeguards, and honor data-subject rights such as access, correction, and objection. Where personal information is accessed or acquired by an unauthorized person, the responsible party must notify the Information Regulator and affected data subjects as soon as reasonably possible.
Recent developments
In April 2025, the Information Regulator published amendments to the POPIA Regulations that streamlined several processes — including objecting to processing, requesting corrections or deletions, and obtaining consent for direct marketing — strengthening protections for individuals.
How episki helps
episki holds POPIA obligations as structured records — processing activities, lawful bases, data subject requests, and operator agreements — linked to controls that are evaluated continuously. Operators and their subprocessors live on vendor records with review cadences that advance on accepted evidence. Start a free trial or book a demo.
POPIA outcomes with episki
Why teams choose episki for POPIA
- Accountability and processing limitation
- Purpose specification and further-processing limits
- Information quality, openness, and security safeguards
- Information officer registration and duties
- Data-subject access and objection requests
- Information Regulator and data-subject breach notice
- Crosswalk to GDPR articles
- Reuse records of processing
- Aligns with LGPD, CCPA, and PIPEDA
POPIA readiness inside episki
Plug episki into your stack and work directly from this checklist during the free trial.
- ✓ Information officer registered with the Regulator
- ✓ Personal information inventory and processing records
- ✓ Lawful-processing controls across the eight conditions
- ✓ Security safeguards proportionate to risk
- ✓ Data-subject request and objection workflow
- ✓ Breach notification to the Regulator and data subjects
