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Most SMEs aren’t uninsured. They’re misaligned. Their cover may have been appropriate when it was first arranged. But over time, the business evolved. The gap between what is assumed to be protected and what is actually exposed often only becomes visible at claim stage.
A few months ago I presented at a private hospital emergency department, all because instead of engaging in festivities with us, a relative, Lucy, took ill while visiting us in the Eastern Cape Province.
Award-winning financial journalist and author, Phakamisa Ndzamela, is not one to shy away from highly-emotive and controversial economic debates.
At just 25 years old, Nsuku Mahlahle, is proving that determination, compassion, and vision can create meaningful change.
There is a smell familiar to anyone who has watched South African institutions fight over money and power - the unmistakable scent of a turf war dressed up as “policy”.
Residents of Tembisa township, east of Johannesburg, recently welcomed the very first KwaMakhi store, a new Clicks-owned smaller format store targeting low-income consumers.
Friends, South Africans, countrymen, lend me your ears. The town of Engcobo in the Eastern Cape is burning. The Lesotho Mountains have breathed their icy breath into the valleys of Engcobo, a white and biting gust that settles over the plains with the kind of cold weather that kills livestock.
South Africa is entering a new era in its 34-year old democracy where its citizens are demanding greater accountability and transparency from government institutions.
Broad-based Black economic empowerment (B-BBEE) policy, a key pillar of efforts to reverse the apartheid legacy, is facing its strongest criticism since it became official in 2004.
In early October last year, a large contingent of Joburg’s metro cops descended on the Dunusa Street Market, to clear hundreds of street vendors and hawkers that were trading illegally at the open-air second-hand clothing market.
Is the proposed preferential procurement policy destined to be another poorly-conceived piece of black economic empowerment (BEE) legislation that fails to fulfil its objectives?
An affiliate of the National Federated Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Nafcoc) has weighed in on the ongoing protests against illegal immigration that are spreading across South Africa.
At a time when global trade is fragmenting and traditional partnerships are under strain, China’s newly-proposed free trade deal with Africa offers something that is increasingly rare - certainty, scale, and long-term intent.
Almost all battles inevitably produce winners and losers. The winners usually take all, and losers are left to lick their wounds.
South Africa’s banking industry has additional movement. In a move that's further transformed the industry, Old Mutual, South Africa’s largest insurer by assets, has expanded its offerings by officially entering the banking industry at the end of last year.
The South African Reserve Bank (SARB) left interest rates unchanged yesterday, but signaled gradual cuts in future as inflation is expected to subside.
The Eastern Cape government, which governs the third poorest province in South Africa, is the worst payer of supplier invoices out of the country’s nine provincial governments.
In a major step forward for financial security, young tech innovator Olwethu Mabena has created a groundbreaking AI-powered, real-time fraud detection tool that defends banking fraud victims against the rising scourge of express kidnappings.