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How South Africans are coping with Covid19 – A survey
Right now, there are currently around 2.5 billion people around the world in some form of a Covid-19 lockdown, and millions more businesses are also shuttered and unable to trade or generate an income. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic … Continue reading →
Lockdown – Updated list of essential services
Here’s the updated list of essential services for the remainder of the lockdown period: Medical, Health (including Mental Health), Laboratory and Medical services and the National Institute for Communicable Disease; Disaster Management, Fire Prevention, Fire Fighting and Emergency Services; In … Continue reading →
Insurers helping during COVID-19 lockdown
In the weeks since South Africa’s COVID-19 lockdown started, local insurers appear to be embracing the Treating Customers Fairly (TCF) principles even more so than required by law under normal conditions. Sustaining this could stand the industry in good stead … Continue reading →
Insurance claims during lockdown
Dealing with insurance claims during the national Covid-19 lockdown. In addition to the onerous lockdown restrictions, many home owners still have to deal with other serious issues, such as burst geysers and burst water pipes. As with many other facets … Continue reading →
BE MINDFUL OF COVID-19 SCAMS
The South African Banking Risk Information Centre (SABRIC) has issued an official warning to all banking clients in the country. This, after the spread of the coronavirus, forced the government to implement strict social distancing measure with a 21 day … Continue reading →
Cybersecurity: Getting our heads around the issue
In a previous post ” Covid-19 and cybersecurity” we looked at what cybersecurity entails, and shared examples of recent cyber-attacks. Today we will examine threat vectors, cybersecurity elements and challenges. Threat vectors A threat vector is a path or means … Continue reading →
21 Day Lock Down LSG Announcement
In light of the announcement by The President of South Africa, Mr. Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday, 23 March 2020, of a 21-day national lock-down commencing at midnight, 26 March 2020, management and staff will be working from home. As before, … Continue reading →
Covid-19 and cybersecurity
COVID-19 has thrown our world around. Attending conferences, seminars, training sessions, client lunches/launches and award dinners is the norm for certain industries, and suddenly, the carpet gets pulled out from underneath us and we have to adapt like never before. … Continue reading →
Covid-19 & Business Interruption – Are you covered?
The out-break of Covid-19, which originated in China and has since spread to most of the world, is one of the most serious threats to public health in recent times and has now been designated as a pandemic by the … Continue reading →