Security & Network Insights
Practical, South African guidance on CCTV, POPIA compliance, load-shedding resilience and estate networks — written for the Garden Route.
POPIA and CCTV: what an estate manager actually has to do
If your estate runs cameras, POPIA applies to you, and not in a "maybe, ask your lawyer" sort of way. The moment a camera records a resident, a visitor or a staff member who can be identified, you…
Keeping your cameras recording when the power goes out
South Africa has gone a long stretch without load-shedding. Eskom carried the country through the whole 2026 winter without a single round of it, and by early July we had passed roughly 413…
The CCTV placement mistakes that ruin otherwise good footage
Most bad CCTV footage was never going to be good, no matter how many megapixels the box said. The camera was aimed at the wrong thing, or mounted in the wrong place, or pointed straight into a…