Explore the Category

Better workplace Tuberculosis (TB) management can result in reduction in disability claims

25 March 2014 | General

TB is one of the leading causes of deaths in South Africa; in fact the disease is responsible for more than 10% of all deaths. The fight against TB is complicated by the massive HIV infection rate and the coexistence of the disease with HIV/ AIDS, with recent statistics from the Department of Health stating that 73% of TB patients are HIV positive.

South Africa in danger of losing its competitive edge

19 March 2014 | General

Cutting edge wellness programmes primed to take corporate SA out of its 'sickening slump'.

Amended Pension Funds Act gives better protection to minors

13 February 2014 | General

The effects of the 2007 Fidentia corruption scandal continue to work their way through the legislative system. A recent amendment to the Pension Funds Act will make it easier for additional death benefits to be administered in beneficiary funds, the protective vehicle that government created to gradually replace the more loosely regulated umbrella trust that was the subject of the Fidentia saga.