Hijacking remains an unfortunate everyday concern for many South African motorists, with Statistics South Africa’s latest Victims of Crime Survey showing a total of 30,664 South Africans were victims of vehicle hijacking in 2016/2017. This equates to around 85 hijackings per day – or four every hour – meaning there…
When you take out a short-term insurance policy, the responsibility lies with you to provide the insurer with all the necessary information so that it can correctly underwrite (assess and price) your risk. The information provided at sales stage is used to enable your insurer to accurately determine whether or…
So you’re buying a beautiful weekend home in the Magaliesberg with a thatched roof – or you’re planning to build a lapa over your outside entertainment area at home. Have you considered what that entails, from both maintenance and insurance perspectives? For example, did you know that a lightning strike…
They’d had some roof maintenance issues before that led to huge costs at their Johannesburg home, so now they’re being prudent and strictly analysing each prospective home. Patrick has drawn up a list of questions he plans to ask, to ensure they don’t miss anything and are well informed…
Your home is not only where your heart is, it is most often your most valuable asset. And, while the idea of losing it (and all its treasured contents) is unthinkable, having insufficient insurance cover to replace it is an even more unbearable prospect. Sadly, the recent fires…
Vehicle tracking company Ctrack has released data on the most hijacked vehicles in South Africa, and the areas where hijackings are most likely to occur. According to the group the VW Polo is the most hijacked passenger vehicle in the country, while the Toyota Fortuner is the most hijacked SUV,…
A meeting of the national Aarto task team will take place in Bloemfontein before the end of February in preparation for the planned country-wide roll-out of the demerit points system. The demerit points system was introduced in a pilot program across Gauteng in 2008, in order to penalise drivers and operators…