Covid-19 News South Africa

As companies and individuals come to terms with what lockdown means, many are getting over the initial shock and starting to wonder what happens to their property transactions...

The nationwide lockdown and the resultant remote working implemented by employers may increase the liability exposure of financial and professional services firms - conveyancers, asset managers, intermediaries and bankers...

Most of the Covid-19 numbers we have paint only part of the picture and can easily be misinterpreted. Here are some tips on understanding the numbers...

1st for Women Insurance and donations-based crowdfunding platform, BackaBuddy have teamed up with Gift of the Givers and Vula Mobile to create a dedicated online crowdfunding campaign for nurses...

As the SARS-CoV-2 virus spreads around the world, causing the disease Covid-19, it is becoming ever clearer that the solutions to this pandemic will all be based on research...

This rapid outbreak has impacted global markets in unprecedented ways since its arrival. As with many businesses and industries, the container industry has been and will be impacted...

Of the companies that have ceased operations, only a few have applied to the C19 TERS fund...

For hotel owners and operators already facing nosedives in revenue, the corresponding guest costs, whether over a daily, weekly or monthly basis, can be significant. So who's picking up the tab resulting from these quarantines, and what can hotel owners and operators do...

Across the globe, many governments have been forced to lockdown their countries in an attempt to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. A number of African countries have adopted similar measures. This has stalled, if not brought to a halt, economic activity...

No one can truly know what the outcome of this pandemic will be, nor when the virus will pass or if it will ever be defeated. We will forever mark this moment as one of seismic significance...

According to the South African Revenue Service (SARS), businesses that import essential goods do not have to pay VAT on these imported goods...

SweepSouth has launched a fund to help provide domestic workers with food and other basic essentials during the national lockdown...

Foster + Partners has created a prototype for a general-purpose prototype face visor, which is suitable for cleaning and reuse...

Like many companies selling goods classified as 'non-essential' during the lockdown, Cash Crusaders had to temporarily shut its stores across the country - all 220 of them.

Many investors from around the world, including South Africans, are becoming increasingly concerned about the impact of Covid-19 on what may be their biggest investment - their retirement savings...

The R200m Tourism Relief Fund has been established as an intervention to mitigate against the impact of Covid-19 in the tourism sector...

Regulations giving effect to the government's commitment to assist ailing industries and workers through the Unemployment Insurance Fund are being gazetted...

An industry-wide assistance and relief package for retail tenants that are hardest hit by the 21-day lockdown has been launched by the newly formed Property Industry Group...

With the implementation of the national lockdown by President Cyril Ramaphosa on 26 March, there has been understandable confusion...

Just weeks after confirming the first case of Covid-19 in South Africa, the government ordered a lockdown in an attempt to flatten the curve of infections. One of the reasons was to avoid overwhelming the healthcare system.