Data Protection in Botswana: Privacy Law, Rights and Compliance

Every organisation in Botswana handles personal data about customers, employees, patients, pupils or members of the public. This course explains Botswana’s data protection law in practical terms for the organisations that decide how data is used (data controllers) and the suppliers that handle it for them (data processors), such as payroll bureaus, IT and cloud providers and call centres.

It covers the Data Protection Act, 2024, the Information and Data Protection Commission’s role and related laws, with practical Botswana examples. The focus is on principles that do not change: a lawful basis before processing, transparency, minimisation, security by design, accountability with evidence, and the rights of the people the data is about.

Fines, response times and other figures are shown as 2026 examples and are expected to change. All of them are collected in a dated reference table at the end of the course. Always confirm any figure with the Information and Data Protection Commission or a qualified adviser before you act.

What you will learn

• How the Data Protection Act, 2024 and the Information and Data Protection Commission fit together
• Why there is no registration, and the records and data protection officer duties that apply instead
• The principles, lawful bases and consent, sensitive and children’s data, notices and direct marketing
• How to handle rights requests, run impact assessments and govern data protection
• How to secure data, respond to breaches, manage processors and meet the transfer and local-copy rules
• How to handle employee data, CCTV, websites and AI tools, and how complaints, enforcement and penalties work

Who it is for

Compliance officers and data protection officers, HR, IT and security staff, marketing and customer-service staff, managers and business owners, and suppliers that process personal data for clients.

How the course works

There are five modules, each with four lessons and a short quiz. You need 70% on each quiz to complete the course and earn your certificate.