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Treasury sets new 3% inflation target to anchor ...

13 Nov 2025 Financial Service Intelligence Watch

Finance Minister Enoch Godongwana yesterday lowered the inflation target to 3% in a move that he hopes will launch a virtuous circle of low inflation, lower government borrowing costs, increased confidence, higher investment and job creation. Legalbrief reports that the ...

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Two-pot retirement system: Access savings pot when contributions ...

12 Nov 2025 Financial Service Intelligence Watch

The following matter was handed down by the FST on 23 Oct 2025: Municipal Employees' Pension Fund v Mailula and PFA · case number: PFA35/2025 Fast facts Two-pot retirement system – Withdrawal from savings component – Whether inactive member whose ...

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Building resilience

12 Nov 2025 Financial Service Intelligence Watch

By Lee Rossini Resilience is a valuable trait for a person or business to develop. Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties, to adapt, learn, and grow stronger through adversity rather than be defeated by it. It is ...

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South Africa climbs to seventh on global Organised ...

12 Nov 2025 Financial Service Intelligence Watch

SA has ranked seventh on an organised crime index, with human trafficking, drug trade and cybercrimes among the most prominent forms, reports News24. The country scored higher than last year – increasing from 0.25 to 7.43 – in the 2025 ...

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Two-pot retirement system: Access savings pot when contributions are in arrears

Financial Services Tribunal ('FST' or 'the Tribunal')

The following matter was handed down on 23 October 2025:

  • Municipal Employees' Pension Fund v Mailula and PFA (case number: PFA35/2025)


Fast facts

Two-pot retirement system – Withdrawal from savings component – Whether inactive member whose contributions are in arrears entitled to access savings ...

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Building resilience

By Lee Rossini

Resilience is a valuable trait for a person or business to develop. Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties, to adapt, learn, and grow stronger through adversity rather than be defeated by it. It is not about avoiding challenges or pretending that pain and failure ...

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By Lee Rossini

Resilience is a valuable trait for a person or business to develop. Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties, to adapt, learn, and grow stronger through adversity rather than be defeated by it. It is not about avoiding challenges or pretending that pain and failure do not exist. Instead, resilience is about facing those challenges head-on and finding ways to keep moving forward with strength, optimism, and purpose. 

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