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Liberty pays out R600 million for two-pot retirement system in 2024
Liberty announced its claims statistics for 2024 today, showing it paid out more than R12 billion in 2024 for 120 000 insured lives. Liberty Corporate Benefits received 62 000 applications from clients to withdraw funds from their saving pots under the two-pot retirement system in 2024. The financial services company says it paid out R600
John Malone’s Liberty Broadband To Be Acquired By Charter In All-Stock Deal
Charter Communications has sealed a deal to acquire John Malone’s Liberty Broadband in the latest media chess move by Malone. While far from the glitzy spotlight of Warner Bros. Discovery, Formula One or other parts of Malone’s investment portfolio, the broadband deal has been closely tracked as the parties negotiated in recent months...
Self-Employment is on the Rise and Liberty is Ready to Provide Support
More Australians are choosing self-employment, and Liberty is supporting them to secure the funds they need to help build successful businesses...
Liberty rights argued as part of COVID-19 public health order violation trial
In Canadian law, liberty is not simply "the ability to do what one wants," according to Crown lawyer Noah Wernikowski...
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Could XRP Hit $1 While HYPE Stands Strong? Apeing Becomes the Most Awaited Crypto Presale Ready to Explode
What if XRP’s biggest test right now is happening at $1, even as Ripple lands a major Korean banking deal? XRP slipped to $0.98, its lowest level, just as Ripple announced that Jeonbuk Bank had become the first regional bank in South Korea to deploy Ripple Payments for cross-border business transfers...
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‘Eye of the storm’: Business owner’s fight to keep nail tech siblings in country
A Whangārei beauty salon owner says her business may face trouble if she cannot find a way to keep her siblings in the country. Anna Vu owns AV Beauty Spa, and has worked in the city for 12 years. She said she had always struggled to find suitably skilled nail technicians and beauty staff and
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Summerland businesses face another blow as water advisory keeps doors closed
Posted August 20, 2026 10:08 pm 2 min read 2:10 Summerland restaurants stay closed for water restrictions WATCH: Getting back to normal continues to be challenging for Summerland restaurants impacted by the Bald Range wildfire. Evacuated business owners have returned and now a boil-water advisory is keeping restaurant doors closed. Cohan Sassaman has more. –
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Meta smart glasses could soon be banned in cinemas, says UK trade body — but this time it’s more about piracy than privacy
(Image credit: Meta) UK movie theatres considering smart glasses ban The ban would be over privacy and piracy concerns It's yet another instance of private bans restricting the tech Privacy concerns have rocked Meta’s smart glasses business. They’re being ridiculed online as ‘perv glasses,’ and their use is banned in a growing number of spaces.
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Sports Columnist Resigns After Paper Spikes Piece Featuring Girls Opposed to Boys in Their Sports
Matt Calkins was a sports columnist at The Seattle Times for 11 years. On Thursday, he announced his resignation after the paper declined to run a column he had written from the point of view of two female student-athletes who were opposed to boys in girls' sports. "It was one of several pieces of mine