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Top trends that will shape the insurance sector in the next decade

Women’s representation on corporate boards need to improve drastically

In the run-up to International Women’s Day (8 March) it’s important to note that while half of the South African population and 45% of the employed workforce are female, only 20% of directors of JSE-listed companies are women.

Public servants should be held to a higher level of standards, values and ethics

The recent directive sent out by the Department of Justice for the investigations by the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) into the offices of the Masters of the High Court has most, within the industry, in uproar. The motivation for this investigation – someone with authority indulged themselves leaving the people they were supposed to care for at a loss. A R 1.7 million loss to be more accurate.

The real cost of spending is your valuable time

If your employer gave you the choice of working unpaid overtime of four hours a month in return for a free cappuccino every working day, would you take the deal? At face value four hours a month might not seem that much, but over a year you would have sacrificed 48 working hours or 6 working days of your life for that daily cappuccino.