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Marc Marquez of Spain and Gresini Racing MotoGP rounds the bend during the MotoGP Of Emilia Romagna free practice on Friday. (Mirco Lazzari gp/Getty Images) South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we’re about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism. Join our free subscription trial to unlock this story and a world of news aimed to inform, empower, and inspire.
Mitchells Plain residents march against gang violence. (Supplied) South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we’re about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism. Join our free subscription trial to unlock this story and a world of news aimed to inform, empower, and inspire.
South Africa’s first interest-rate cut since 2020 quickly divided economists over how much further it will go after making a cautious 25 basis point start to the easing cycle, despite the Federal Reserve going twice as big the day before.Rand strength, softer oil prices and slowing inflation, which has dipped below the midpoint of the reserve bank’s 3% to 6% target range, was enough to convince the monetary policy committee to reduce the benchmark rate from a 15-year high to 8%.Goldman Sachs sees the central bank lowering its policy benchmark a further 150 basis points, but others only expect a shallow adjustment…
Proteas batting coach JP Duminy. (Matthew Lewis/Getty Images) Matthew Lewis/ICC via Getty South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we’re about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism. Join our free subscription trial to unlock this story and a world of news aimed to inform, empower, and inspire.
104 Darling in Cape Town, a dilapidated complex in the inner city, which has been occupied by Reclaim the City activists. (Marvin Charles/News24) South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we’re about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism. Join our free subscription trial to unlock this story and a world of news aimed to inform, empower, and inspire.
YeboYethu said that the payment would lead to the suspension of dividends to some 80,000 black indirect shareholders of Vodacom. (Gallo Images/Alet Pretorius) Vodacom’s black economic empowerment share scheme, YeboYethu, said it opposes a multi-billion rand payout to an ex-employee as it will wipe out it’s shareholders future earnings and investment in the wireless carrier. The investors who own a minority stake in Vodacom through YeboYethu, an initiative set up in 2008 to increase black ownership, have asked the Constitutional Court to allow them to join the mobile operator’s case as an amicus curiae.Vodacom is challenging a ruling by the Supreme Court of…
Water and Sanitation Minister Pemmy Majodina during a visit to the Eastern Cape on Friday. (Candice Bezuidenhout/News24) South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we’re about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism. Join our free subscription trial to unlock this story and a world of news aimed to inform, empower, and inspire.
Medical schemes use pre-authorisation to manage costs and check that you have the required benefits before you have an expensive procedure or treatment like oncology.Pre-authorisation confirmation letters are often not detailed enough and do not explicitly state the exclusions or limitations on cover, leaving members unaware of potential co-payments or short payments.Call centre agents should warn that if you go ahead there could be a co-payment.For more financial stories, go to the News24 Business front page.Many medical scheme members mistakenly believe obtaining pre-authorisation for a procedure or treatment means their claims will be paid in full.Pre-authorisation should, however, alert you to potential scheme payment…
Bryson DeChambeau of the Crushers GC after putting on the second hole during day one of LIV Golf: Chicago at Bolingbrook Golf Club earlier this month. (Quinn Harris/Getty Images) South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we’re about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism. Join our free subscription trial to unlock this story and a world of news aimed to inform, empower, and inspire.
The Gauteng Legislature. (Siyamtanda Capa/News24) South Africans need to be in the know if we want to create a prosperous future. News24 has kept the country informed for 25 years, and we’re about to enter a new chapter of fearless journalism. Join our free subscription trial to unlock this story and a world of news aimed to inform, empower, and inspire.