Cape Town - Santam has announced the appointment of Hennie Nel as its new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) effective 17 September 2012. Nel joins Santam from PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he has worked since 1993. He spent three years working…
Standard and Poor’s(S&P), the global ratings agency, announced that it has assigned its 'A-' long-term counterparty credit and insurer financial strength ratings and 'zaAA' South Africa national-scale rating to South Africa-based non-life insurer,…
Johannesburg - The South African Revenue Service (SARS) recently promulgated a five-year strategic plan for the financial years 2012 - 2017. In essence, the plan outlines four core desired outcomes, namely: increasing customs compliance, increasing…
Cape Town - Santam, South Africa's leading short-term insurer has announced two new appointments, both with immediate effect. Riaan Louw is to fill the role of Head; Broker Services North, formerly held by Tobias Doyer. Gerhard Diedericks, former…
Cape Town - In a continuation of its work to help develop climate-resilient communities, South Africa's short-term insurer, Santam, will be handing over the completed installation of an Early Warning Disaster (EWD) System and polycom to the…
Cape Town - Out of the estimated 8.7 million species on earth, homo sapiens is the only one that actively seeks out risk, knowingly and often against our own better judgement. We speed, we text while driving, we drive under the influence of…
Polokwane - Santam today celebrated 50 years of running one of the oldest and most popular corporate social investment programmes in the country with a special art exhibition at the Polokwane Art Museum. ";Join the party" was the theme of the…
Santam today reported a 10% increase in gross written premiums for the six months ended June 2012 compared with the previous period. The underwriting margin stood at 6.1%, down from 8.4% a year ago, and 7.1% for the second half of 2011, but…
Johannesburg - South Africans are always looking for ways to manage their individual risk profile, or so they think. Take George for example; he drives with his doors locked, windows rolled up and he always obeys the speed limit. At home, he…
Johannesburg - The Department of Transport has published Notice 575 of 2012 as per Government Gazette No. 35528 which constitutes the National Road Traffic Amendment Bill (2012) and the Memorandum on the objects of the bill. The department has…
Johannesburg - The Department of Transport has published Notice 458 of 2012 which constitutes the draft Regulation Amendment to the National Road Traffic Regulations for comment by 6 July 2012 A circular to invite comment from SAIA members was…
Johannesburg - The South African Insurance Association (SAIA) says it has made major strides in its task of establishing a vehicle damage quantification body with the view of implementing a qualification for motor assessors and estimators.
Johannesburg - The South African Insurance Association (SAIA) says its Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) Project, through which its motor members fund the implementation and operational cost of five (5) fixed ANPR camera sites is in…
Johannesburg - The South African Insurance Association (SAIA), a body representing 58 member companies within the short-term insurance industry on Tuesday, 24 January 2012 announced that it had successfully held its thirteenth Annual General…
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