Thursday, 1 October 2026

Discovery Health will raise premiums by 7.4% to 8.9% next year, while medical inflation is driven by older, sicker membership and shrinking numbers of younger entrants.

Home Affairs will stop producing green ID books on 31 March 2027 and stop recognising them a year later, as digital IDs are rolled out through smartphones.

Deceased-estate fraud exploits fragmented, manual processes; beneficiaries should identify assets, contact institutions directly and independently verify the executor and their own contact details.

Small businesses need documented processes, reporting systems and trained employees so operations do not depend on the founder; building a genuinely sustainable company can take 10 years.

Index-tracking funds can drive sharp, temporary price moves when stocks enter or leave an index, because they must buy or sell at the official rebalancing close.