Johannesburg, June 04, 2025 – Discovery Pothole Patrol celebrates an important milestone – four years of partnership with the Johannesburg Roads Agency (JRA) and the City of Johannesburg (CoJ) to facilitate the repair of potholes in the Johannesburg metro.
“In 2021, Discovery Insure launched Discovery Pothole Patrol to support the JRA and CoJ in their vital work of repairing potholes and making
Johannesburg, 3 June 2025 – In anticipation of Global Running Day on June 4th, Discovery Vitality announces an extension to its Give2Move initiative – which aims to collect 100,000 pairs of new or gently worn running shoes for disadvantaged communities. South African primary and secondary schools across the country are now invited to donate gently worn running shoes, soccer boots or any other spor
Johannesburg, 30 May 2025 – Discovery Green, a Discovery Limited business, has signed its first Power Purchase Agreement as an off-taker of phase two of leading independent power producer (IPP) Red Rocket’s Overberg Wind Farm, unlocking 150MW of clean energy for its clients.
Situated 12km west of Swellendam in the Western Cape, Red Rocket’s Phase 2 of the Overberg Wind Farm will power Discove
Cape Town, 21 May 2025 – Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Special Advocate (UNSGSA) for Financial Health met with Discovery Bank CEO, Hylton Kallner, and other guests at Discovery Store in Sea Point, Cape Town. They explored the bank’s fully digital behaviour-change programme, Vitality Money, and how it enables financial health through science-bas
Johannesburg, 15 May 2025 – Traditionally, access to wheeled renewable energy has excluded many South African businesses – from larger non-energy-intensive corporates to SMMEs – from participating in the energy transition, even though they account for 15 to 20% of the country’s total electricity consumption.
To better understand the economic opportunity of expanding access to renewable energy,
Keynotes:
Discovery Green and Sasol launch Ampli Energy, a market-first, no-fee, no-risk, no-hassle, month-to-month renewable energy product for South African businesses of all sizes.
Ampli Energy pays businesses monthly cashback to replace their electricity consumption with clean, grid-delivered renewable energy.
Delivered through Eskom’s national grid via wheeling, Ampli requires n
Johannesburg, 12 May 2025 - In a powerful show of community and action, Discovery Vitality marked World Move for Health Day this weekend with a renewed push for its Give2Move initiative, a campaign encouraging people across South Africa to donate new or gently worn running and sports shoes to help others take their first steps towards a more active life. A host of new drop-off locations were also
Johannesburg, 10 April 2025 – Discovery Bank and Visa today released their new SpendTrend25 report, their third annual collaborative report of South African consumer spending habits based on an in-depth analysis of credit card spend data. Combining their extensive datasets and analytical expertise, SpendTrend25 tracks how consumer spending habits have evolved between 2019 and 2024 among Discovery
Key insights about Discovery Life’s 2024 Claims Experience include:
Growth in payments for living benefits – namely illness, disability and income protection – and Shared-value rewards for health behaviours outpaces growth in payouts for death benefits.
Discovery Life clients who reached a Gold or Diamond Vitality status experienced a 57% lower mortality risk and a 47% lower disability risk,
Discovery Insure’s telematics data shows that just 20 seconds on a phone increases accident risk by over 60% and that cellphone-linked distraction is the biggest contributor to road accidents in the country. Discovery Insure and bp launch the #DriveNowTextLater campaign – a national movement to stop drivers from texting while driving. Drivers are encouraged to pledge not to text and drive by ap
Johannesburg – 27 March 2025 – Discovery Bank announced the latest advancements in its banking features and services, unveiled today at a client and financial adviser launch.
Salient additions to Discovery Bank:
Vitality Money, the bank’s behavioural change programme, now incorporates rewards for financial planning to align clients’ short-term goals and long-term aspirations, including es
Johannesburg, 4 March 2025 – Discovery today presented its interim financial results for the six-months ended 31 December 2024 to the investor community.
Group Chief Executive, Adrian Gore, provided context to the Group’s strong performance and consistent growth across the two composites of the business. “We have emerged from a cycle of significant investment, which focused on creating new aven
