Kandua has launched Jess, South Africa’s first AI-powered home companion, combining conversational AI with vetted service providers to simplify home maintenance, improve transparency and trust, and create a smarter, more seamless home services experience for consumers and small businesses.

Sirago Underwriting Managers explains why gap cover has become an essential safeguard for South African medical scheme members, highlighting growing specialist tariff shortfalls, rising healthcare costs and claims data that demonstrates the potentially devastating financial consequences of inadequate medical cover.

Hyphen’s Pieter Brand argues that businesses should stop accepting payment reconciliation challenges as inevitable, urging finance teams to treat collections as a strategic customer engagement process rather than simply an administrative function.