06 November 2024: Johannesburg, South Africa – The Discovery Safe Journeys to School (DSJTS) programme, a partnership between Discovery Fund and Afrika Tikkun, has expanded into Gauteng. This expansion will cover areas in central Johannesburg including Orange Farm, Alexandra, and Diepsloot, where the need for safer school transport is high.
Johannesburg, 4 November 2024 – Discovery Vitality announced that United Airlines, one of the world’s largest airlines and a member of the Star Alliance network, will bring exciting additional flight options to the Vitality Travel platform.
“Offering United Airlines flights at discounted rates is a significant enhancement to Vitality Travel, our end-to-end travel booking platform that offers t
The Discovery Foundation has reached its R300 million investment milestone, achieving a 72% Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) target directed towards black beneficiaries. To date, the Foundation has funded up to 10% of the sub-specialists training posts in South Africa and currently awards more than 75% of its annual grants to black recipients as part of its transformation-led strategy. Since it
Highlights:
The Discovery Emergency Cover range of options will be available from 1 January 2025
Employees and their families will now have access to extensive cover for accidents and trauma events, treatment in casualty and for emergency in-hospital procedures
Discovery Emergency Cover is offered through three packages – Emergency Core, Emergency Plus, Emergency Max - starting at R90 per mont
Key findings:
South Africa’s heavy reliance on coal for electricity generation makes it one of the world’s most carbon-intensive economies, exposing local businesses to significant financial risk from global and local carbon taxes.
By 2034, carbon taxes could make up over 35% of electricity generation costs.
South African businesses face a ‘double whammy’: Local carbon taxes are expected to i
Johannesburg, October 17, 2024 – The inaugural Global Insurance Innovation Awards, held at a gala ceremony in Singapore today, recognised Discovery Insure as a global leader in insurance innovation, thanks to its world-class and future-ready product offering.
In line with expectations that debt repayment would be a key reason for requesting Two-Pot withdrawals, one of the two main reasons claimants gave for needing extra cash was to settle short-term debt. The other was to cover home or car expenses. That's according to the Discovery Corporate and Employee Benefits’ pension and provident fund business. T
