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February 23, 2016
Liable for Historical Debt Property owners are now threatened by the devastating prospect of having to repay piles of historical debt to municipalities accrued up to 30 years ago by […]
January 27, 2016
The dollar to rand exchange rate has South Africans frantic, after the rand plummeted to a record low of R17.99 against the dollar on Monday, 11 January 2016. While the […]
November 13, 2015
The new Maximum Interest Rates and Fees regulations for credit of all kinds have finally been published in the Government Gazette by the Minister of Trade and Industry, Dr Rob […]
November 12, 2015
Is your bad credit profile preventing you from getting a home loan? Having debt isn’t necessarily the cause, as many believe. The problem almost certainly lies with your credit profile. […]
November 10, 2015
Desperate Times Are you a sole breadwinner that has to support your spouse, children and elderly parents? These days, far too many South Africans are in this situation. Not being […]
September 16, 2015
Theory vs. Practice In theory, the upcoming repo rate hike should see consumers save money via improved returns. However, in practice, an interest rate hike will overstretch indebted households, leaving […]
September 11, 2015
73% of South African consumers believe that our country is in a recession or have a recessionary sentiment, according to the latest Nielsen’s Consumer Confidence Index Report for the second […]
September 8, 2015
NCC Warns Consumers Against MMM The National Consumer Commission (NCC) is warning consumers against an international pyramid scheme, now operating in our country as MMM South Africa. NCC spokesman, Trevor […]
August 31, 2015
The Financial Services Board (FSB) and the South African Reserve Bank (Sarb) have given African Bank (ABIL) their approval to relaunch itself as “Good Bank”, using its salvaged assets. In […]
August 21, 2015
Yesterday, the latest South African Customer Satisfaction Index (SAcsi) was released, revealing which of our country’s clothing retailers got the highest and lowest ratings for brand satisfaction, according to consumers. […]
August 3, 2015
Negative Equity Though home prices are on the rise, at the end of June, 7.4 million homeowners remained gravely underwater on their mortgages. This means that the outstanding balance they […]
July 31, 2015
Hit and Miss The Western Cape police arrested a 38-year-old man on a charge of perjury, after he confessed to lying about his firearm being stolen, for the purpose of […]