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		<title>Top Africa Insurer Sanlam Flags &#8216;Massive&#8217; Risks From Iran War</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2026/03/13/861590.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 08:22:16 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Sanlam Ltd. sounded the alarm about the impact of a protracted war in the Middle East, with Africa&#8217;s biggest insurer saying the conflict could have a &#8220;massive&#8221; impact on its performance. The escalating tensions will hurt earnings of the firm &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>South Africa Is Considering Flood Insurance for Large Cities</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2025/08/04/834394.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2025 09:34:03 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[South Africa is studying whether some of its largest cities should take out flood insurance after a series of disasters in recent years led to bailouts from the government. The insurance being considered is parametric, a type of cover that &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>South African State Insurer Builds $1.1 Billion Riot Buffer</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2025/07/30/833796.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:37:32 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[South Africa&#8217;s state-owned risk insurer, which the government bailed out so it could meet claims stemming from riots four years ago, has built up a 20 billion-rand ($1.1 billion) buffer to safeguard its finances in the event of anticipated future &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>South African Insurers to Face Climate Stress Test, SARB Says</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2025/06/09/826726.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2025 05:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[South Africa&#8217;s central bank plans to expand its examination of climate risk to the insurance industry, as it seeks to anticipate threats that can do far-reaching economic harm. &#8220;This year we put out our first climate-risk scenario, common stress test, &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>South Africa Insurer Santam Plans Asia Expansion, Following Success of Parent Sanlam</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2024/08/30/790830.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Fri, 30 Aug 2024 05:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[South Africa-based general insurer Santam Ltd. plans to expand in Asia to diversify its premiums and counter tepid growth at home. The insurer, a subsidiary of financial services group Sanlam Ltd., generates 82% of its premiums in South Africa. &#8220;We &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>South Africa&#8217;s President Approves Major Health Reform Law; Legal Challenges Expected</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2024/05/15/774203.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 06:20:06 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[South Africa&#8217;s President Cyril Ramaphosa signed into law on Wednesday a bill that aims to provide universal health coverage, hailing it as a major step in the journey towards a more just society although critics say they will challenge it &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>South Africa&#8217;s State-Owned Insurer Won&#8217;t Pay Claims for Grid Collapse</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2023/05/08/719937.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[L.S. Howard]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2023 07:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[South Africa Special Risk Insurance Association told clients it won&#8217;t pay claims for damage related to a collapse of the national electricity grid, Business Day reported, citing a circular from the company. The announcement by the state-owned insurer comes less &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>South African Premiums to Rise as Insurers Face Growing Flood, Fire Risks: Sanlam</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2022/09/08/684281.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2022 16:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[South Africans could soon be paying as much as 5% more on their premiums as insurers face growing risks both globally and locally. The country is now considered &#8220;very risky&#8221; due to mounting flood and fire dangers, as well as &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>S. Africa Insurer Santam Loses Appeal in COVID-19 Business Income Case With Hotelier</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2021/10/07/635847.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2021 11:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG – South Africa&#8217;s Supreme Court of Appeal has ruled Santam is liable to cover the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on hotel group Ma-Afrika for 18 months, rejecting the insurer&#8217;s request for a shorter time frame on the claim, Santam &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>South Africa&#8217;s State Insurer to Raise Premiums to Cover Riot-Related Reinsurance Costs</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2021/08/25/628562.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2021 06:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG – South Africa&#8217;s only insurer covering political violence will increase its premiums to cover a rise in reinsurance costs following some of the worst unrest in decades, the head of the state-owned company told Reuters. More than 300 people &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Insurer Sanlam Braces for More Virus Waves in South Africa</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2021/03/12/604979.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[L.S. Howard]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2021 08:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[South Africa may still be short of the halfway mark of the pandemic even after two distinct waves of the coronavirus swept through the country over the past year. &#8220;We are basically planning for two-and-a-half more waves,&#8221; Sanlam Ltd. Chief &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>S. Africa Insurer Santam Begins Processing 4,000 Business Interruption Claims</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2021/01/25/598555.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2021 15:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG— South African insurer Santam Ltd. said on Monday it will start processing business interruption claims for all commercial policies that were affected by a coronavirus-led lockdown in April beyond those of its hospitality and leisure division. It will cover &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>S. Africa Medical Insurers, Business Groups, Government to Fund Vaccines for Uninsured</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2021/01/05/596088.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[L.S. Howard]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2021 10:19:24 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[South African medical-insurance companies, business organizations and the government are developing a program in which the private sector will help fund COVID-19 vaccines for people not covered by insurance. Legislation has been amended to allow the companies to fund shots &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>South African Insurer Santam Accepts Liability for Some Rejected COVID-19 Claims</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2021/01/04/595872.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2021 13:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG – South African insurer Santam will begin assessing payouts for some previously rejected coronavirus-related claims after recent court judgments on such cases but still intends to challenge one finding against it. Like other insurers around the world, Santam had &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>S. African Insurer Guardrisk Will Not Challenge Court Ruling on COVID-19 Claims</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2020/12/18/594551.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2020 11:51:33 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG – South African insurer Guardrisk will not further challenge a court process that has found it liable to pay clients&#8217; rejected coronavirus-related claims, it said late on Thursday. Guardrisk, the country&#8217;s fourth-largest non-life insurer, and its peers around the &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>South Africa Court Dismisses Insurer Guardrisk&#8217;s Appeal in Coronavirus Claims Case</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2020/12/17/594368.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2020 11:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG – A South African court on Thursday dismissed insurer Guardrisk&#8217;s appeal against a previous ruling that found it was liable pay a Cape Town cafe&#8217;s rejected coronavirus claim. Like other insurers in South Africa and around the world, Guardrisk, &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>South African Insurer Santam to Appeal COVID-19 Business Interruption Ruling</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2020/11/20/591462.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2020 12:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Santam said on Friday it would appeal against a court ruling that found South Africa&#8217;s largest non-life insurer liable to pay a client&#8217;s claim relating to a coronavirus lockdown. Like insurers in other countries, Santam has been battling with clients &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>South African Insurer Santam Loses COVID-19 Business Interruption Test Case</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2020/11/18/591118.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[L.S. Howard]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2020 08:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[A Cape Town court ordered Santam Ltd. to pay out business-interruption claims to two South African hospitality companies, potentially opening up the industry to cover losses suffered because of the coronavirus pandemic. The court agreed with the approach of the &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>S. Africa&#8217;s Regulator to Clarify Policyholders&#8217; Rights in Pandemic Insurance Claims</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2020/08/07/578271.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[L.S. Howard]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2020 15:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[South Africa&#8217;s financial watchdog is consulting with lawyers and the insurance industry on a potential test case to clarify whether insurers should pay rejected claims from firms hit by the impact of the coronavirus, it told Reuters on Thursday. Several &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>S. Africa Insurers&#8217; COVID-19 Payments May Be Too Little, Too Late, for Some Businesses</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2020/07/31/577605.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[L.S. Howard]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2020 07:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[South African small businesses fighting rejected coronavirus-related claims said insurers&#8217; offers of relief are too little too late for many and could leave some already struggling to survive with nothing at all. Insurers around the world have argued COVID-19 lockdowns &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>S. African Insurers Bow to Policyholder Demands to Pay COVID Biz Interruption Relief</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2020/07/29/577222.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[L.S. Howard]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2020 06:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[South African insurers are bowing to demands for the payment of losses that businesses suffered during the nation&#8217;s lockdown. Momentum Metropolitan Holdings Ltd.&#8217;s Guardrisk will make settlement payments to policyholders who submitted business-interruption claims for losses suffered when all but &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>South African Insurer Santam to Pay Virus Relief to Clients with Biz Interruption Cover</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2020/07/27/576922.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[L.S. Howard]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2020 08:12:58 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[South Africa&#8217;s largest property and casualty insurer will pay as much as one billion rand ($60 million) in relief to clients with business-interruption cover hit financially by the coronavirus pandemic. Santam Ltd. will begin making relief payments next week, mainly &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>S. African Regulator Says Business Interruption Virus Claims Don&#8217;t Pose Systemic Risk</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2020/07/16/575734.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[L.S. Howard]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2020 07:12:18 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[South Africa&#8217;s Prudential Authority expects that business-interruption claims linked to the Covid-19 pandemic poses little systemic risk to the insurance industry. The regulator is in talks with the country&#8217;s Financial Sector Conduct Authority and insurance companies on claims from policyholders &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>South Africa Regulator Warns Insurers to Stop Broad Rejection of Virus Claims</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2020/07/10/575086.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[L.S. Howard]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2020 08:04:50 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[A South African regulator warned insurers to stop broadly rejecting claims from businesses seeking to cover losses because of a lockdown to curb the coronavirus. &#8220;The Financial Sector Conduct Authority is concerned about the behavior of some insurers who are &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>S. African Insurers Are Pushed to Pay COVID-19 Business Interruption Claims</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2020/07/02/574127.htm</link>
		
				<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2020 07:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Virus-related claims from just over 500 small South African firms battling insurers who have rejected them are worth up to 4 billion rand ($232 million), the firm representing the businesses has calculated. Loss adjustment firm Insurance Claims Africa (ICA) is &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cape Town Drought Highlights Water Scarcity Risk to Vulnerable Cities Globally: UBS</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2018/08/28/499303.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[L.S. Howard]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2018 13:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[Cape Town&#8217;s water crisis, which saw the drought-hit city come within 90 days of turning off the taps earlier this year, highlights the threats to South African companies from a repeat event and should serve as a warning to vulnerable &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cape Town Hit by Worst Storm in 30 Years, Threatening Insurers&#8217; Outlook</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2017/06/08/453869.htm</link>
		
					<dc:creator><![CDATA[L.S. Howard]]></dc:creator>
					<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2017 11:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[South Africa&#8217;s property and casualty insurers face an even tougher year than expected after Cape Town experienced its worst storm in 30 years and dozens of fires engulfed the region around the town of Knysna this week. The insurers, including &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PwC Concludes South African Insurers Seeking Technology Partnerships</title>
		<link>https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/international/2015/10/21/385684.htm</link>
		
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					<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2015 15:05:39 +0000</pubDate>
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							<description><![CDATA[South Africa&#8217;s biggest insurers are considering technology and telecommunications partnerships as they seek ways to improve earnings to counter increased competition and a slowing economy, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC. &#8220;There are a few tie-ups being worked on,&#8221; Victor Muguto, PwC&#8217;s &#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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