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A round-up of today’s news updates, including a look back on the life and times of Pick n Pay founder Raymond Ackerman, who passed away on Thursday.

8 Sep 2023 6AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

Why online sales die at checkout

R100bn fund opens a new debate around BEE. What SA should demand from Chinese investment. And are loyalty programmes really alleviating the cost-of-living squeeze?

8 Sep 6AM 34 min

[TOP STORY] SA’s crime crisis: Too many cases, too few detectives

‘Your average detective receives up to 200 new case files or dockets per month to investigate, and there's just no way that they can thoroughly do that,’ says Willem Els, senior training coordinator at the Institute for Security Studies.

7 Sep 8AM 7 min

Global air travel stalls, but Africa keeps flying

The unsolved crime crisis undermining SA’s fight against criminals. The new reality of SA television. And why deaf South Africans still struggle to access basic government services.

7 Sep 6AM 32 min

[TOP STORY] Could forcing more South Africans into medical aid make it cheaper?

‘Medical aid schemes are effectively 20% to 30% more expensive because we never made it mandatory for employed people to belong to medical schemes,’ says Thoneshan Naidoo, CEO of the Health Funders Association.

4 Sep 8AM 7 min

Township economy trapped by red tape and unequal access

New data shows SA needs 8.8m more members to change medical aid maths and parents favour phone-free schools as concerns over social media grow.

4 Sep 6AM 34 min