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You won the judgment. The court agrees you are owed the money. Then the sheriff comes back with a nulla bona return: nothing of value found. Yet the debtor still drives a new double-cab, the family still holidays in Plettenberg Bay, and the business still trades. The money hasn’t disappeared. It has been moved, hidden

suspected fraud, surveillance, infidelity, employee misconduct, missing persons, cybercrime, asset tracing or a corporate investigation, the investigator you appoint may gain access to highly sensitive information. One of the first questions every client should ask is: Is the investigator properly registered to provide private investigation services in South Africa? Under the Private Security Industry Regulation

Hiring a private investigator often starts with a simple question: “What information can a private investigator legally obtain?” The answer is more complicated than many people realise. A professional private investigator can obtain a substantial amount of information through lawful investigation techniques, public records, interviews, surveillance, open-source intelligence, corporate records, authorised databases, document analysis and

In South Africa, many people wonder: are private investigators legal? As a seasoned private investigator at Royal Investigations, I often encounter this question — sometimes from prospective clients who are unsure whether engaging a PI is lawful, other times from individuals worrying whether they might be infringing privacy laws themselves by conducting informal private inquiries. Private investigation