The regulator says it is monitoring the situation and sees signs of improvement, but some members continue to report difficulties accessing healthcare and resolving claims.
The publication of the final amendments to Joint Standard 1 of 2020 by the FSCA means that the significant owners of FSPs must now comply with the honesty and integrity requirement from which […]
The Office of the Ombudsman for Long-Term Insurance (Olti) received 11.8% fewer chargeable complaints in the first half of this year compared with the same period last year, when the number of complaints […]
Most economists who participated in a poll by Reuters expect that the South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) will raise the repo rate by 75 basis points this week. Of the 20 economists polled […]
The Competition Tribunal has granted interim relief to the Sekunjalo Group, preventing three banks from closing the group’s accounts and ordering five others to reopen accounts that have already been closed. The interim […]
A beneficiary fund should not be the default choice when a retirement fund pays out a death benefit due to minor beneficiaries, but trustees must interrogate a guardian’s circumstances and intentions before making […]
The Association for Savings and Investment South Africa (Asisa) says retirement funds and administrators would like at least 18 months from the date on which the final legislation is gazetted in which to […]
Cosatu has called for fund members to be allowed to access their accumulated savings when the two-pot retirement system takes effect, to prevent them from resigning and cashing out their savings. This was […]
National Treasury and the South African Special Risk Insurance Association (Sasria) are working on ways for the state-owned insurer to reintroduce the R1 billion in additional cover for large corporates, Finance Minister Enoch […]
The High Court’s decision that requiring healthcare practitioners to obtain a certificate of need (CoN) is unconstitutional will not stop the Department of Health from implementing National Health Insurance (NHI), says Minister of […]
Momentum Metropolitan Holdings (MMH) delivered normalised headline earnings of R4.383 billion in the year to 30 June, significantly higher than the R1.007bn in the previous financial year, following the less severe impact of […]
South Africa’s possible grey-listing will have a “muted” impact on the country’s banking sector, although local banks might suffer some reputational risk and could face higher compliance costs, according to S&P Global Ratings. […]
There are things former retirement fund members and their beneficiaries can do to make it more likely they will be paid an unclaimed benefit due to them. By the end of last year, […]
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (Sahpra) has confirmed a second fatal case of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) following vaccination with Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine. Last month, Sahpra reported South Africa’s first […]
In an article about a case in which the High Court in Johannesburg ordered the South African Special Risk Association to pay Blackspear, the judge noted that, despite the complexity of the relevant […]
A jobseekers’ grant and a caregivers’ grant might be “an acceptable compromise” to a permanent Social Relief of Distress (SRD) grant or a basic income grant (BIG), according to a discussion document published […]
The recently published code that aims to eliminate all forms of workplace harassment will come under the spotlight in the first webinar to be hosted by Moonstone Compliance’s new Employment Law Service. The […]
The High Court in Johannesburg has placed Health Squared under provisional curatorship following an application brought by the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS). The provisional curatorship is effective from 8 September. The court-appointed […]
