Risks Affecting Insurance

Risks which now appear high on many organisations’ agendas barely existed ten years ago.  The breadth and variety of risks businesses face today requires them to mitigate against a wider range of challenges than ever before, ranging from white-collar crime, to terrorism and political instability, through to cybercrime...read more

Mall Robberies: Tips To Stay Safe This Holiday Season

The recent spate of mall robberies put a dampener on your festive shopping plans? Here are some tips on how to minimise your chances of being caught in a less than desirable situation...read more

Know The Cost Of A Car Crash

What being uninsured means for the uninsured, the insured and the insurer.

Driving without insurance is a gamble which can become very costly if you have an accident. There are however products available which can make car insurance more affordable. Before driving on our country’s roads, South Africans should ask themselves if it is worth taking the risk, especially when times are tough and personal budgets are under pressure...read more

Ferrari Recalls Cars Because You Could Get Trapped In The Boot

Escape is impossible from the boot of these R2 million cars, which apparently “increases risk of injury or possibly death”...read more 

Distracted Driver Behaviour Impacts Accidents Worldwide

Road crashes are the single greatest annual cause of death nationwide. According to the Association for Safe International Road Travel, road traffic injuries predicted to become the fifth leading cause of death by 2030...read more

Vehicle Scams Racing Out of Control

Vehicle cloning is proving to be a major thorn in vehicle owner’s sides, according to the South African Insurance Crime Bureau (SAICB). 

Thieves clone vehicles by copying the Vehicle Identity Number (VIN) of a legally-owned car, onto a stolen car of the same make and model. The cloned car is then sold to unsuspecting customers. The only way to find out if the car has been cloned is for the illegal status of the car to be picked up by the authorities...read more

Owners vs Tenants: Who Insures Who?

Whether you are a homeowner or tenant, home insurance is essential to have, but there is a difference in the type of home insurance required. Do you insure the structure of your home, or its contents? Are there aspects of each you need to consider depending on your position?...read more

High Value Vehicles are currently being targeted by syndicates pretending to be employees of Vehicle Dealerships, specifically their Service Departments or Customer Service

The following Modus Operandi is used by the suspects:

The suspects will obtain information of a specific vehicle which is booked in for service or repairs at the service department of a dealership as well as the details of the client involved...read more

Insurance Claims Flood In

Fires, floods and hailstorms. No, it’s not a Hollywood remake of The Day After Tomorrow; these are some of the main reasons for the sharp increase in weather-related insurance claims over the past two years...read more

Transporter Insurance - The Hazard Warnings

Transporting goods throughout Africa is a massive industry – an industry that has very specific insurance requirements. All too often transporters are unaware of the pitfalls that could lead to their claims being repudiated...read more

Tips to Help Avoid A Hijacking

An average of 28 cars are hijacked every day in South Africa. Follow these tips to lessen your chance of becoming a statistic. Vehicle hijackings have increased by over 5% in the last two years, according to SAPS crime stats. Most of these happen between 5pm and 8pm when most people are commuting home from work, reports Arrive Alive...read more

Growth In Luxury Brands In South Africa Calls For Specialised Insurance

According to London-based Euromonitor, Africa’s fast-growing emerging markets provide great potential for purveyors of luxury goods. During a webinar held in early May, the company said that South Africa is an important market for luxury goods with its large population of high-income earners. With 60% of Africa’s millionaires based in South Africa, owners of luxury goods may be at an increased risk of underinsurance or even be unable to replace items with the same brand....read more

Here Are The Top 3 Mistakes People Make When Buying Car Insurance

Don’t make these same mistakes!
Car insurance is a necessity in this day and age.  You never know what could happen and when you will need it, but much like buying a car, you can make mistakes when buying car insurance....read more

Discovery Driving App Reveals SA's Best Drivers

Preliminary data from the new Discovery Insure smartphone driving app has shown that South Africa’s best drivers reside in the Western Cape, followed by the Eastern Cape, and Freestate, while the worst performing provinces are KwaZulu-Natal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga....read more

Cheaper Insurance Can Cost SMME's Dearly - Make Smart Decisions to Avoid The Pitfalls

The combination of a falling Rand, tight budgets and diminishing profit margins, has seen a rise in cost cutting in businesses. Insurance is one area that businesses put under the microscope when the pressure is on – but uninformed cost cutting can have disastrous consequences....read more 

Joburg A City Of The Future

Earlier this month more than 700 of the world’s key global city decision makers gathered in Johannesburg to discuss some of the biggest challenges facing the world with regard to climate change and its impacts....read more

DISASTER: A resident of Somerset West is taken away

DISASTER: A resident of Somerset West is taken away on a gurney in November after the area was hit by flash floods. Picture: SUNDAY TIMES...read more

Volatile weather around the world is taking farmers on a wild ride.

Too much rain in northern China damaged crops in May, three years after too little rain turned the world’s second-biggest corn producer into a net importer of the grain. Dry weather in the U.S. will cut beef output from the world’s biggest producer to the lowest level since 1994, following 2013’s bumper corn crop, which pushed America’s inventory up 30 percent. U.K. farmers couldn’t plant in muddy fields after the second-wettest year on record in 2012 dented the nation’s wheat production....read more