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Self-service technologies, retrenchment, and a new future

Self-service technologies, retrenchment, and a new future

13 August 2018

Internet Solutions announced in July that it intends to simplify its business model through further enabling self-service technology, and reducing the number of hired staff members. This is part of its ongoing plan to implement more automation i...

POPI Compliance may be a ‘last minute scramble’

POPI Compliance may be a ‘last minute scramble’

13 August 2018

Following the commencement date of the Protection of Personal Information (POPI) Act, businesses will have one year to become ‘POPI compliant’. According to the 2017 POPI Act Compliance Survey, which was run by ITWeb, only 21% of t...

Pink Tax: Marketing tool or discrimination?

Pink Tax: Marketing tool or discrimination?

30 July 2018

Consumers marched through retail stores this month with their cameras in hand, ready to capture the discrimination on the shelves known as ‘pink tax’. This is the additional amount that products marketed at women cost as opposed to...

Childhood violence leads to reduced salaries, inequality - researcher

Childhood violence leads to reduced salaries, inequality - researcher

25 July 2018

South Africa is regarded as the most unequal country in the world, according to a report released by the South African Human Rights Commission at the start of July. 

Majority of South Africans terrified of evening strolls – report

Majority of South Africans terrified of evening strolls – report

25 July 2018

South Africa shares the bottom four places with Afghanistan, Gabon, and Venezuela, in terms of feeling safe while walking home at night. Only 31% of South Africans feel safe, as opposed to 40% of Mexicans and Argentinians, and 84% of Canadians a...

Genuine tax errors - don’t give SARS a reason to hunt you

Genuine tax errors - don’t give SARS a reason to hunt you

11 July 2018

Sometimes tax season can feel like hunting season – especially when it’s your first time filing taxes and you are still trying to make sense of what an “ITR12” is. Justmoney got in touch with two tax specialists to fi...

How can private healthcare be anticompetitive?

How can private healthcare be anticompetitive?

10 July 2018

Competition among medical aid providers is neither as vigorous nor as effective as it could be, said former chief justice, Sandile Ngcobo, during the presentation of the Health Market Inquiry (HMI).

The impact of Zimbabwe – and other countries - adopting the rand

The impact of Zimbabwe – and other countries - adopting the rand

4 July 2018

The leading opposition party in Zimbabwe, the MDC Alliance, announced in its manifesto that, if elected, it will adopt the rand as legal tender. But what are the economic and political consequences of more countries adopting the rand? And what i...

Lightning and load shedding can damage household appliances

Lightning and load shedding can damage household appliances

3 July 2018

South African households are vulnerable to sporadic power surges, predominantly because of lightning strikes and power cuts.

Blow to rand softened by ‘Ramaphoria’

Blow to rand softened by ‘Ramaphoria’

2 July 2018

The growth of the US dollar in April was a blow to the rand – but one that has been cushioned by political changes. The rand strengthened in December last year with the election of Cyril Ramaphosa as the leader of the African Nationa...

Future looks grim for DVD stores – The move to online streaming

Future looks grim for DVD stores – The move to online streaming

27 June 2018

Perhaps you watched SABC 2 on Saturday mornings. The animated characters flashing in and out of focus, and you and your siblings take turns wrestling with the antenna. Perhaps you frequented your local video store – which later turned int...

How ‘exposed’ was Liberty Holdings to hackers?

How ‘exposed’ was Liberty Holdings to hackers?

26 June 2018

Liberty Holdings was recently the victim of an online breach of information, and the responsible cybercriminals are blackmailing them with the stolen data. 

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