Hisense Counts Down to 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar with a Chance to win your share of over a Million rand in prizes

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Oct. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Hisense, a leading global home appliance and consumer electronics brand, has launched a series of prize-winning activities both online and instore with its campaign in South Africa, “The Perfect Match”, to celebrate its global sponsorship for The FIFA World Cup 2022 with its innovative products. 

Hisense will be activationing in selected retail channels with incredible FIFA DEALS as well as offering the consumer a chance to win their share of incredible prizes

How to Win

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Purchase any Hisense qualifying product from participating retailers From the Month of October to December 2022 .

Prizes up for Grabs

Makro Exclusive

  • L5 Laser TV
  • U7H TV
  • H780 Fridge
  • 15 x 10 000 Mrewards Voucher

Game Exclusive

  • L5 Laser TV
  • U7H TV
  • H780 Fridge
  • 15 x 10 000 Game Vouchers

All other participating retail stores

  • 2x L5 Laser TV
  • 2xU7H TV
  • 2x H780 Fridge
  • 10x R10 000 Cash in the form of a mastercard

Buy Online

Hisense launched an e-commerce campaign in October to offer customers who shop online a chance to win some fantastic prizes to watch the World Cup in style.

The Prizes

Hisense has arranged “Perfect Match” themed prize to provide a luxury World Cup viewing experience at your house with 20 friends, all catering, beverages and your very own butler included

This is the second year for Hisense to be an official FIFA World Cup sponsor. “We are glad to have this opportunity to showcase our innovative technology achievements. We aim to bring every football lover perfect matches with a great viewing experience in this global sporting festival,” said Patrick, marketing director of Hisense South Africa. “At Hisense, we’re always looking to deliver more value for customers, and we are delighted to announce this fantastic range of promotions, that ensure our customers are getting even more when buying a broad range of Hisense products,” he added.

For more information, please visit www.hisense.co.za.

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Quantexa Has Been Positioned by Chartis as a Category Leader in the KYC Solutions 2022 Market Quadrant Update and Vendor Landscape

Quantexa’s KYC Solution, part of its industry leading Decision Intelligence Platform, recognized for completeness of offering, risk scoring, customer profile enrichment, and customer onboarding

LONDON, Oct. 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Today Quantexa, a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence (CDI) and helping the world’s leading organizations and government agencies solve some of their toughest data challenges, announced that they have been recognized as a category leader in the just released 2022 Chartis KYC Solutions Market Update and Vendor Landscape report. Quantexa is being recognized as a category leader for completeness of their enterprise solution as well as market potential. The Quantexa KYC Solution was rated “best in class” for KYC risk scoring and customer profile enrichment with additional data and received an advanced ranking for customer onboarding and reporting, and dashboarding.

The Chartis KYC report is focused on the macro themes of cost saving and efficiency. Currently, KYC processes can be manual, error-prone and result in a poor experience throughout the customer lifecycle. Quantexa’s Decision Intelligence Platform transforms the approach to KYC by adding context and clarity from onboarding to exit, dynamically monitoring, and assessing customer risk and opportunity, and shifting away from manual periodic reviews to an automated, proactive process.

The platform connects internal and external data to create a single, enriched, holistic view of a customer and its control, and uncovers hidden connections between customers, counterparties and their behaviors which are often impossible to see in isolation. Along with automation and the use of AI to achieve efficiencies, the solution facilitates a continuous and informed understanding of customers for better, faster decision making throughout the customer acceptance, identification, activity monitoring, and risk management processes.

Quantexa’s positioning in the report is reflective of their customers’ proven results and is proof that adopting a contextual and perpetual approach to KYC reduces the time and costs involved for businesses. It also transforms what has become a tick-the-box exercise, back into the true purpose of understanding the risk and exposure brought on by customer activity. By increasing automation and using decision intelligence, businesses stay ahead of the volume and velocity of data related to KYC policies and processes and can free up their teams, so they have more time to concentrate on high-risk customers and value-add tasks.

Quote: Phillip Mackenzie, Senior Research Specialist, Chartis
The Chartis RiskTech Quadrant for KYC does not simply describe one technology solution as the best – rather, we use the most sophisticated ranking methodology to explain which solution would be most suitable for buyers, depending on their implementation strategies. Our research finds that Quantexa’s KYC Solution offers businesses the necessary controls to address the risks involved in using AI in their compliance programs.”

Quote: Dan Higgins, Chief Product Officer, Quantexa

“Quantexa is thrilled to be included in the Chartis KYC Market Quadrant Report, positioned very strongly amongst an esteemed list of enterprise solution providers. Traditional ongoing due diligence and periodic refreshes of KYC continue to drive cost and complexity for businesses. The increasing regulatory, budget and customer pressures demand a new way of thinking. Quantexa’s contextual approach reduces the time and cost of KYC by increasing automation, connecting non-obvious relationships, and leveraging decision intelligence for perpetual monitoring of risk. This translates into more accurate risk identification and management, lower costs, and improved customer experience. We are confident that this approach will continue to provide value to our clients and drive overall market growth for Quantexa.”

ABOUT QUANTEXA
Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence that empowers organizations to make trusted operational decisions by making data meaningful. Using the latest advancements in big data and AI, Quantexa’s platform uncovers hidden risk and new opportunities by providing a contextual, connected view of internal and external data in a single place. It solves major challenges across data management, KYC, customer intelligence, financial crime, risk, fraud, and security, throughout the customer lifecycle.

The Quantexa Decision Intelligence Platform enhances operational performance with over 90% more accuracy and 60 times faster analytical model resolution than traditional approaches. Founded in 2016, Quantexa now has more than 500 employees and thousands of users working with billions of transactions and data points across the world. The company has offices in London, New York, Boston, Washington DC, Brussels, Toronto, Singapore, Melbourne, and Sydney. For more information, contact Quantexa here or follow us on LinkedIn.

ABOUT CHARTIS

Chartis is a research and advisory firm that provides technology and business advice to the global risk management industry. Chartis provides independent market intelligence regarding market dynamics, regulatory trends, technology trends, best practices, competitive landscapes, market sizes, expenditure priorities, and mergers and acquisitions. Chartis’ RiskTech Quadrant reports are written by experienced analysts with hands-on experience of selecting, developing and implementing risk management systems for a variety of international companies in a range of industries, including banking, insurance, capital markets, energy and the public sector.

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Western Cape Education on Pinelands North Primary School placed on top 3 of the World’s Best School Prize

Pinelands North Primary School does the Western Cape proud in the World’s Best School competition

Pinelands North Primary School has placed in the top 3 of the World’s Best School Prize, awarded by T4 Education.

In June this year, we celebrated with the school when they were announced as one of the top 10 finalists in the category “Overcoming Adversity”. The school’s inclusive environment, and recognition of their learners’ unique needs and potential, caught the attention of the T4 Education judges.

Another of our excellent schools, West End Primary, was also announced as a top 10 finalist. Pinelands North Primary then proceeded to the top 3, which was announced in September.

We congratulate Project Shelter Wakadogo in Gulu, Uganda, on winning the category’s prize. They have done incredible and inspiring work in difficult social circumstances, transforming lives through education.

While Pinelands North Primary did not make it all the way to first place, it remains a fantastic achievement for our country and for the Western Cape. We congratulate the staff and SGB, learners and parents, and the entire school community.

Premier Alan Winde joined me in congratulating Pinelands North Primary, saying:

“Pinelands North has made the Western Cape and South Africa proud. To have made it to the finals of the Overcoming Adversity category was a huge achievement all by itself. This reflects the hard work of the school’s educators, staff, School Governing Body and learners. I urge the school community to forge ahead and keep up with the good work.”

Ann Morton, Principal of Pinelands North Primary, said:

“The fact that we have made it to the top 3, we’re exceptionally very proud too. We are the top school on South Africa out of 300 000 schools all around the world that entered this competition so we’re very proud to come in the top 3. But a very special congratulations to Project Shelter Wakadogo.”

We cannot wait to see what new heights Pinelands North Primary will achieve!

Source: Government of South Africa

Mathale leads delegation to Interpol General Assembly

Government will use its attendance at the 90th Session of Interpol’s General Assembly to hold a series of bilateral discussions on mutual assistance with various countries in a bid to strengthen and promote cooperation.

Police Deputy Minister, Cassel Mathale, said cooperation in this regard will be in the areas of fighting transnational organised crimes such as kidnappings, drug trafficking and financial crimes.

Capacity building in the form of skills transfer to enhance police capabilities will also form part of discussions.

This year’s General Assembly is being held in New Delhi, India.

“We are representing the country’s interest. Let’s do what we can for the benefit of our citizens. We look forward to robust discussions and may we depart having gained improved cooperation and mutual understanding with the various countries,” the Deputy Minister said in a statement.

Other key role players attending this meeting include Ministers, police chiefs of different countries, heads of National Central Bureaus (NCBs) and senior police officers.

The Annual General Assembly (AGM) session will culminate in key decisions being adopted in the form of resolutions to bolster transnational organised crime fighting initiatives.

Mathale, together with the National Commissioner of the South African Police Service (SAPS), General Fannie Masemola, is leading a delegation of senior police officers to the session.

Interpol is the world’s largest international police organisation, with 195 member countries, including South Africa. The organisation enables cross-border police cooperation, supports and assists law enforcement authorities, whose mission is to prevent or combat transnational organised crime.

The AGM meets once a year and takes major decisions concerning policy, resources needed for international cooperation, activities and programmes to be undertaken to prevent and combat international crime.

The delegation, consisting of senior officers within the operational environments in the SAPS and the Directorate for Crime Priority Investigations (DPCI), will form part of various discussions in financial crime, cybercrime, crimes against children, and a host of other transnational organised crime related matters.

Source: South African Government News Agency

Sport, Arts and Culture hosts Big Walk in Pretoria, 23 Oct

Sport, Arts and Culture to host big walk in Pretoria

The Department of Sport, Arts and Culture, (DSAC) will this coming Sunday, 23rd October 2022 host one of its healthy lifestyle flagship programmes #National Big Walk under the theme #IChoose2BActive, how about you? One of the prime goals of the event is prearranged to inspire the public to take up the practice of walking, and encourage participation in walking as an easier tool of achieving a healthy lifestyle. 

The Big Walk has seen massive growth since its debut back in 2012 by gradually turning into a 365-day call for action being led by the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture with the objective of urging all South African citizens to choose an active lifestyle. Having been held in Tshwane – Fountains Valley Resort for 5 years, this year the Big Walk is scheduled to take place with event details as follows: 

Date: Sunday, 23 October 2022

Time: 07h00

Venue: commences at Fleur Primary School (Corner Molten Road and Hans Strijdom) 

Finish: Ending at Fountains Valley

Commencing at Fleur Primary School and finish off at Fountains Valley Pretoria, the event will once more encompass 5km, 10km, and 15km routes and ending up with aerobics session and LIVE musical performance as part of event day entertainment. Billed as fun filled family entertainment event, the Department of Sport, Arts and Culture therefore invites members of the media to attend and cover event.

The Big Walk is held annually every October coinciding with World Walking Month.

Source: Government of South Africa

Man arrested for alleged murder of elderly woman

Police have arrested a 46-year-old man after 74-year-old woman’s body was found with a stab wound in her house.

It is alleged that on Tuesday, 18 October 2022 at about 16:00 Phuthaditjhaba police were summoned to Maqhekung section of Phuthaditjhaba after the son of the deceased received a call from neighbours that his mother had been stabbed to death.

It was discovered that the pensioner was stabbed in the chest with a sharp object and died instantly on the scene. The motive behind is still unknown.

The case of murder was opened and further investigations led to the arrest of a 46-year-old man.

The suspect has been charged and is expected to appear before the Phuthaditjhaba Magistrate court on Thursday, 20 October 2022 facing a charge of murder.

Source: South African Police Service