Author: John Mungabe
Multinational reinsurer fully engaged under South Africa’s ‘work from home’ dynamic
Munich Re of Africa (MRoA) is one of many insurers and reinsurers that entered South Africa’s national lockdown with a sense of trepidation, but has s [...]
ARC has new group director general
The Conference of Parties (CoP) of the African Risk Capacity (ARC) has elected Ibrahima Cheikh Diong, of the Republic of Senegal, as the new ARC group [...]
Insurers agree to keep sustainable development on track
Insurers have joined private sector, capital markets, government and multilateral institutions to promote long-term investment in sustainable developm [...]
Focus on ESG having significant impact on power sector
Pressures on workforce availability and maintaining supply chains arising from Covid-19 are proving challenging to the power sector, according to Will [...]
Great Reset needed to drive world economy post-Covid suggests WEF
Covid-19 lockdowns may be gradually easing but anxiety about the world’s social and economic prospects is only intensifying. There is good reason to w [...]
South Africa under attack from cybercriminals
South Africa now has the third-highest number of cybercrime victims worldwide, after a surge in cybercrimes across the country. And businesses have re [...]
Overcoming human resistance to change
Human resistance to change is one of the greatest barriers to moving business forward and building a resilient future. That is according to Dr Ibrahim [...]
Covid-19 a wakeup call for Africa, warns ARC
The Covid-19 pandemic could be devastating to livelihoods, health and food security across Africa but could also be the wake-up call needed to spark c [...]
80 million Africans could be pushed into food poverty by Covid-19 fallout
Africa faces being the worst hit from the economic fallout of the Covid-19 crisis and now there are warnings that 80 million Africans could be pushed [...]
Handling Covid-19 could provide lessons for managing climate change
While insurers and their insureds handle the Covid-19 crisis, there have been a number of experts warning that their companies cannot afford to ignore [...]