South Africa’s short-term insurance industry faces an onerous administrative burden in the wake of new accounting rules and tax policies introduced by the South African Revenue Service.

Events over the last decade have fundamentally shifted the way organisations think about risk, as companies make substantial investments in personnel, processes and technology to help mitigate and control business risk.

South Africa's rand fell more than 2.3% against the dollar to a three-and-a-half year low in volatile trade recently as strikes that have hit output in the mining sector continued to hurt investor sentiment.

Large South African shareholders are increasingly setting performance indicators for the boards of companies they invest in as shareholder activism takes off in local markets.

It's essential that SA entrepreneurs and small business owners utilise all tools and resources available at their disposal, in order to reduce the relatively high current business failure rate in the country.