Tag: March 2023
Discovery announces changes for its popular Vitality Rewards platform
Discovery has had a fair amount of media attention around its changes to the Vitality Rewards programme since 2020. The biggest fuss came about...
Eastern Cape to get a major renewable energy project
JUWI Renewable Energies, a global solar, wind and hybrid project developer, announced that its large-scale renewable Wolf Wind Project is under construction in the...
Standard Bank Insurance sees a change in funeral policy profiles
Standard Bank Insurance has reported changes to its funeral policy customers, over the past three years. Prior to COVID-19, the average age of funeral...
BankservAfrica and Pasa launch South Africa’s new payment system PayShap
BankservAfrica and the Payments Association of South Africa (Pasa) launched a new real-time payments service in mid-March 2023, with Absa, FNB, Nedbank and Standard...
Youth Employment Service reaches the 100 000 jobs mark
The Youth Employment Service (YES) works with private sector South African businesses to place or sponsor unemployed youth in 12-month work experiences, to give...
Sanlam reports firm results despite economic headwinds
Sanlam announced its results for the year ended December 2022, with CEO Paul Hanratty expressing satisfaction with the group’s overall performance, during a year...
Discovery launches Flexicare health insurance for the mass market
In mid-February 2023, Discovery Health partnered with Clicks and Auto & General Insurance to bring its private health insurance product Flexicare, to the mass...
Trade Union says more jobs are lost than are created
South African trade union, the United Association of South Africa (UASA), released a statement after Stats SA released its own Quarterly Employment Statistics survey....
Momentum Metropolitan Group approves new R500m share buy-back
The Momentum Metropolitan Group has announced both an increase in dividends and a share buy-back, after its interim results to 31 December 2022. The...
Solidarity Research Institute reveals the cheapest bank accounts in South Africa
The Solidarity Research Institute (SRI) published its 2023 Banking Charges report, comparing pricing at South Africa’s biggest banks, based on different user profiles in...