Pansy Tlakula is on a mission to protect your personal info – and big business better watch out

She often refuses to have her licence disc scanned when she enters a gated community – much to the annoyance of security guards. 

But as the head of the Information Regulator (IR) of South Africa, Pansy Tlakula knows better than to expose her personal information carelessly. 

“One of the problems we have in this country is the rate at which personal information is collected unnecessarily,” she tells YOU when we meet at her office in Braamfontein, a stone’s throw from the Johannesburg CBD.