7+ hour, 16+ min ago  (433+ words) Artificial intelligence is rapidly expanding beyond chatbots and office productivity tools, and the latest example comes from an unlikely corner of the market: home maintenance. Home services platform Kandua, a wholly owned subsidiary of Santam, has launched what it says…...

7+ hour, 8+ min ago  (1593+ words) By the time Medihelp restored its statutory solvency ratio to 27. 01% at the end of 2025, the explanation for what happened had become familiar. The scheme has consistently argued that its financial challenges began with a deliberate decision taken during the Covid…...

6+ hour, 49+ min ago  (1244+ words) Clients do not experience life that way. Illness affects income. Income affects retirement savings. Financial stress affects health. Healthcare costs compete with debt repayments, school fees, and long-term saving. Every decision draws on the same household budget. That theme surfaced…...

6+ hour, 54+ min ago  (837+ words) Behind every name we call this evening is a story the rest of us did not see." With those words, Moonstone's chief executive, Hjalmar Bekker, opened Moonstone Business School of Excellence's first in-person graduation ceremony in Stellenbosch on 26 June 2026. Early…...

7+ hour, 3+ min ago  (310+ words) The Financial Sector Conduct Authority has extended until 2029 a narrow exemption for certain juristic representatives that collect and handle insurance premiums on behalf of insurers. FAIS Notice 43 of 2026, published on 30 June, extends the existing exemption by replacing its previous expiry…...

7+ hour, 10+ min ago  (518+ words) When OUTsurance introduced its Cash OUTbonus in 1998, cashback rewards were a novel way of encouraging policyholders to remain claim-free. Nearly three decades later, South Africa's largest short-term insurer has entered the cashback arena. Santam has launched a cashback programme for…...

7+ hour, 14+ min ago  (395+ words) The Financial Sector Conduct Authority has given certain financial services providers operating in the private equity sector, and certain juristic representatives associated with them, another three years of relief from selected Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services Act requirements. Published on…...

7+ hour, 12+ min ago  (351+ words) The Financial Sector Conduct Authority has extended until 30 June 2029 an exemption for certain Category I financial services providers from the section 19(3) auditor's report on client money and assets and from specified liquidity requirements under the Fit and Proper framework. FAIS…...

2+ day, 1+ hour ago  (1014+ words) The Government Employees Medical Scheme (GEMS) has confirmed that the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) has not approved its proposal to reduce the scheme's weighted average 2026 contribution adjustment from 9. 5% to 7. 5%, leaving the higher contribution adjustment in place. The CMS has…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (1192+ words) The Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) has received 46 complaints from Bonitas members following the medical scheme's change of administrators and managed-care providers on 1 June, with two cases considered sufficiently urgent to warrant the regulator's expedited investigation process. Within days of…...