Statistician salary ranges – Employment guide
Statistician salaries in South Africa vary considerably by experience, employer, qualifications and industry. PayScale reports an average base salary of R510,000 per year, equivalent...
Medical aid misconceptions – protecting employees from debt
You had the surgery. Your medical aid paid its share right on schedule. Three weeks later, a second bill arrives from the anaesthetist or surgeon for R40,000. You didn't budget for it, and you didn't see it coming. Increasingly, this is becoming the norm. The numbers behind these shortfalls tell the real story of this year's benefits renewal season. They also highlight the financial risks associated with medical aid misconceptions.
AI notetakers – can convenience cost confidentiality?
Every meeting is now recorded and transcribed by an Artificial Intelligence (AI) notetaker, but nobody knows where the files reside or who has copied them. In August 2026, Dark Reading discovered a vulnerability in tl;dv’s backend. It allowed an authenticated user to access meeting information belonging to other customers. The vulnerability put more than 180,000 meeting records across 80,000 or more users at risk.
E-hailing risks – are SMEs overlooking their duty of care?
E-hailing, for most South African businesses, has become the default mode of getting employees from A to B. After all, there are no invoicing headaches or petrol reimbursements to worry about. Your employee simply opens the app, books the ride, and gets on with their day. That familiarity, however, has been complicated by a regulatory shake-up that caught many businesses off guard.
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Hedge fund management salary ranges – Employment guide
Hedge fund management salaries in South Africa vary considerably according to investment experience, assets under management, investment performance and the structure of the fund....
Highest engineer salary ranges – Employment guide
The highest engineer salaries in South Africa are often associated with engineering management, mining engineering and specialised senior technical positions. According to Indeed salary...
Contractual liability – insurers must assess each claim separately
In Las Vegas Sands, LLC vs National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reviewed the matter de novo. The court held that the lower court had erred by treating legally distinct causes of action as a single, unified “Claim”. These causes of action included breach of contract, fraud, and quantum meruit, all pleaded within one lawsuit.
AI-driven training – turning workplace expertise into learning
New technology is putting training creation into the hands of employees and subject experts. Meanwhile, the global corporate e-learning market is heading towards US$335 billion. The market is forecast to more than triple in size this decade as employers face growing pressure to continuously reskill their workforces. However, this surge in demand is also exposing a fundamental problem.
A new era of tax residency – why the old approach...
South Africans planning to relocate abroad or formalise their non-resident taxpayer status face a significantly changed regulatory environment. Over the past few years, the process of ceasing tax residency has shifted from a largely bank-driven exercise to a compliance-focused process under the South African Revenue Service (SARS).
