Insurance: People between the ages of 30 and 50 are at the highest risk of dread diseases such as cancer and heart attacks.

Lerato Mametse, deputy chief executive of the Life Offices’ Association, talks about the progress of the LOA in terms of the financial sector charter.

The South African life-insurance industry grew by 14% in the first half of the year, the Life Offices’ Association said on Thursday.

Banks are sabotaging the over broad-based black economic empowerment standards, the charter council says.