With the Oura Ring officially in South Africa, I spent a month testing it, before sitting down with Discovery Insure’s CEO to explore how it fits into a much bigger picture.
South Africa (26 November 2025) – Sleep. We all need it, most of us want more of it, and now… for the first time ever, you can actually be rewarded for it. Properly rewarded. And that’s exactly what this week’s episode of “Good Things with Brent Lindeque” is all about.
This week, I sit down with Robert Attwell, CEO of Discovery Insure, to unpack something genuinely ground-breaking: Discovery becoming the first health insurer in the world to reward you for sleep.
You heard that right.
Sleep.
How brilliant?
I sleep well. I’m going to get all of the rewards. All of them.
A couple of weeks ago, I joined the Discovery team at their media launch, where they revealed the new sleep benefit (going live in February 2026) and gave us the opportunity to get our very own Oura Ring. We were the first South Africans to slip one onto our fingers. And after a month of wearing mine… I’m hooked.
Yes, it tracks a lot of what my watch does, but it also goes deeper, literally. It monitors sleep stages, body temperature, readiness, recovery, heart rate variability and that sneaky middle-of-the-night tossing and turning. It’s sleek, it’s light and it has already become part of my daily rhythm.
So I sat down with Robert to get into the details, how the Ring works with Discovery’s ecosystem, what the new benefits look like, and how sleep links to safer, more attentive driving. Because as it turns out, well-rested people make better decisions on the road and Discovery Insure’s entire mission is built around rewarding safer driving.
Sleep, it seems, is the missing piece they’ve been waiting to connect.
Robert shared incredible insights about the science behind it all, the global research they’ve been part of, and the vision of using positive behaviour (sleeping well!) to improve health, wellbeing and road safety across South Africa.
Watch or listen to our chat below:
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