Competition in the grocery delivery market is intensifying with Spar, the last listed grocery retailer to offer the service, announcing it is rolling out its e-commerce platform in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg
Daily Maverick 168 weekly newspaper.
Across the board, private healthcare providers felt the brunt of the pandemic in the first half of 2020, with operating profits falling by 35% to 86%.
Yet this started to change in the second half as hospitals learnt to operate within the parameters of Covid-19, the middle class began to prioritise both healthy living and health insurance, and the promise of vaccines became a reality.
The first companies to feel the impact of the pandemic were the hospital groups, not just the big three of Mediclinic, Netcare and Life Healthcare but also smaller ones like RH Bophelo and Advanced Health. The latter was facing difficulties before the pandemic began.