The Big Budget 180 & Implications For Saffa Purses Earlier this year, South Africans were pleasantly surprised when minister of finance Tito Mboweni revealed a budget the likes of which we’d never seen before. Not only was there an 5,2% average downward adjustment of personal income...
6 Countries With The Best Healthcare 2020 has cast a spotlight on health and wellness, and although Covid-19 is bound to taper off to the end of the year, people throughout the world are considering healthy lifestyle changes and ways to boost their longevity. A surprising...
The Law Of The Land: New Legislation For SA Amid the flurry of new gazetted regulations and interim legislation introduced under the global pandemic and our local lockdown, it’s easy to lose sight of those bills and regulations which are ‘business-as-usual’, or which one would...
Rand manipulation: Staying Safe In The World Of Forex In 2018 South Africans were shocked when news of the great bread scandal broke. Tiger Brands, the largest consumer food company listed on the JSE was one of several enterprises which artificially manipulated the price of bread...
Tax changes for SA expats in 2020 and beyond Since the start of lockdown in South Africa, authorities have announced several measures aimed at mitigating the financial impact of the pandemic on businesses and individuals. Though some of these measures are relatively straight-forward, other measures seem...
Keeping kids safe in the era of online education Former US Treasury Secretary, Larry Summers, likened the pandemic to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. As we all know, his assassination was the catalyst which kickstarted World War 1, ended three empires, brought the world to its...
Funny and inspirational stories from around the world We’re seeing it all around us; people are sharing outrageous conspiracy theories, doctored statistics and images and inviting us to ‘revolutionary’ opposition groups. Governments and health authorities are fumbling with regulations and losing their credibility through hasty or...
Citizens vs State: lockdown or breakdown? Though the world entered the new year of 2020 with a dramatic bang of upheaval, South Africa seemed - until lockdown - to be in a fairly good place compared to recent years. In fact, the country seemed to unite...
COVID-19 and the economy: why you should move your Rands abroad One of the most pressing matters amid this global pandemic is undoubtedly the loss of income so many people are suffering around the world. With the pandemic affecting markets worldwide, South Africans had hoped for...
Travel with us… The world has faced changes the likes of which have never been seen before in history. Indeed, there have been pandemics before, there have been political crises and armed conflict. History is littered with death, destruction, economic crashes and strict regulations imposed by...