What’s worth your attention in June

If you lead on compliance or learning, you already know: not every update deserves a panic. But some do deserve your attention.

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Compliance Online
June 24, 2025

Companies Act and Director’s Duties

Guess who’s responsible? You are, sayeth CIPC

Directorship comes dressed in prestige, but the CIPC has reminded us it also wears liability. A new guideline spells out the legal consequences for those who neglect their duties under the Companies Act. It’s a quiet warning, but a serious one.

The message is clear: responsibility isn’t symbolic. And it doesn’t stop with directors. Accountants, auditors, and company secretaries who look the other way may find themselves implicated too.

This isn’t a call for more rulebooks. It’s a call for better judgement. Compliance training must equip senior staff not just to know the law, but to act wisely when the path blurs.

Now’s the moment to revisit your governance and ethics training. Make sure director duties, and how to meet them, are front and centre.

Feel your directors and senior leadership might need a refresher?
OHS-Act

New look, same mission: keeping your workplace safe

In recognition of World Day for Safety and Health at Work on 28 April, we have refreshed our Occupational Health and Safety course with updated content and a cleaner design.

Make sure your team gets the latest on workplace safety.

Sharper content. Cleaner design. Same life-saving purpose.
Cybersecurity

Loadshedding? Nah, we’ve got bigger problems

From 1 June 2025, all South African financial institutions must comply with Joint Standard 2 of 2024, a new set of legally binding cybersecurity and cyber resilience requirements issued by the FSCA.

The focus? Not just systems, but people. Ongoing staff training is top of the list.

It comes at a time when business risk is being redefined. Loadshedding used to grab headlines, but today the real disruptor (aside from AI!) is cybercrime, with recent breaches at Cell C and SABS serving as stark warnings. Neither organisation had ISO/IEC 27001 certification. Both were criticised for poor communication and slow responses. The result: reputation issues and regulator scrutiny.

This shift demands more than awareness. Staff need to know how to act under pressure, respond clearly, and prevent small breaches from becoming full-blown crises.

Compliance Online’s cybersecurity course is built for this. If you’re in financial services, this is the time to get your team trained and your programme aligned.

You’ve got an inverter, now focus on cybersecurity awareness.
POPIA and PAIA

It’s not training, but your PAIA Manuals are due

Your PAIA Manual submission is due between 1 April and 30 June 2025. If you’re the designated information officer, now’s the time to check your docs and make sure you’re good to go.

We know it’s not training, but it’s still compliance.

When deadlines matter, we’ll tell you.
ELLO eLearning

Small tweak, big signal

We’ve added ticks and crosses to our quizzes, not just colours, so they’re easier to read for colour-blind users.

It’s a minor upgrade. But it reflects something we take seriously: If training’s not clear, it’s not working. And if it doesn’t work for everyone, it doesn’t work at all.