The 2021/22 national budget reminds me a bit of that old Doors blues song 'been down so long it looks like up to me'; a kind of meta take on the perspective from which you view things. The budget is a huge improvement on what we were expecting in September last year, so in that sense, its a rel.
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Critical illness (also called dread disease) cover typically pays out a lump sum of money should you become ill with a severe illness.
Baby boomers like myself saw that a diagnosis of cancer was a death sentence for our parents. This is no longer the case.
Over the years medical advancements have resulted in more people surviving these medical conditions. But the survivors often end up in financial trouble.
Critical illness cover was developed by Dr Marius Barnard.
He had a follow-up consultation with a patient whose life he had saved. He was shocked by what he saw.
The medical costs had destroyed her finances and she could not afford to take off the necessary time to recuperate. She was existing rather than living.
Just more than four months ago, Israel’s Covid-19 outbreak was thought to be one of the worst on Earth, with more than 732,000 coronavirus cases and 5,500 deaths in a population of 9 million. The country entered a strict lockdown while registering that the economy had shrunk for the first tim.
Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper.
There is growing discontent among creative directors over adverse Advertising Regulatory Board (ARB) rulings on supposed “offensive adverts”, which they say are made by people with limited or no creative expertise – with huge commercial implications for ad agencies and their clients.
In a “woke” world, where many people are easily triggered, it takes just one complaint from the public – who may or may not be working for the opposition – to kill projects.
This week, heavyweights from advertising’s Creative Circle, the Loerie Awards and a leading academic who advises the industry called for more inclusion into ARB processes – and for its “code” to be rewritten to represent the South African context.