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This chapter evaluates Lesotho’s Data Protection Act 2011 (published as Act No.5 of 2012). A comparison of this Act with its neighbour, South Africa and Lesotho’s major trading partner is made. Comparison of this privacy law is also made to the African Union (AU) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) privacy frameworks because of two reasons: first, upon ratification, the AU Convention will bind Lesotho and second, the SADC Model law (though only soft law) is likely to influence data privacy law in Lesotho due to the requirement to restrict data transfer to a SADC member state who has not transposed the model law. Reference to the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC is made from time to time because Lesotho’s privacy law makes provision for a legal infrastructure compatible with international best practices, and especially compliance with the EU Directive, since that will be a commercial link for data flows between the EU and the Kingdom of Lesotho.
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Notes
- 1.
The Commonwealth, ‘Lesotho: Society’,
http://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries/lesotho/society
- 2.
Ibid.
- 3.
The Commonwealth, ‘Lesotho: Economy’,
http://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries/lesotho/economy
- 4.
Ibid.
- 5.
Ibid.
- 6.
- 7.
Lesotho: Statement of Object and Reasons of the Data Protection Act (GN No. 10 of 2012).
- 8.
Bygrave 2002, pp.58–59.
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Documents
African Charter on Human and People’s Rights 1981.
African Charter on the Rights and Welfare of the Child 1990.
African Union Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection 2014.
Data Protection Act 2011 (published as Act No.5 of 2012).
International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) 1966.
International Covenant on Economic, social and Cultural Rights 1966 (ICESCR).
Lesotho Constitution 1993.
Lesotho: Statement of Object and Reasons of the Data Protection Act (GN No. 10 of 2012).
Southern African Development Community (SADC), Data Protection Model Law 2012.
The Communications Act 2012.
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child 1989.
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The Commonwealth, ‘Lesotho: Society’, http://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries/lesotho/society.
The Commonwealth, ‘Lesotho: Economy’, http://thecommonwealth.org/our-member-countries/lesotho/economy.
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Makulilo, A.B., Mophethe, K. (2016). Privacy and Data Protection in Lesotho. In: Makulilo, A. (eds) African Data Privacy Laws. Law, Governance and Technology Series(), vol 33. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47317-8_16
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