Dulcie September: Remember her name
An anti-apartheid activist whose name you won’t often hear is Dulcie September’s. To this day her murder in Paris in 1988 is unresolved.
FSB Appeal Board upholds debarment of Interneuron’s Willem Jonker
An appeal brought by Willem Daniel Jonker against his debarment by the Registrar of Financial Services Providers has been dismissed by the Financial Services Board's Appeal Board.
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Money mistakes made by Millennials
We’re all prone to the urge to splurge, but doing it on credit, as so many young people tend to do, is particularly damaging.
Still no relief for victims of debit order abuses
A project to stem the abuse of the debit order payment system has been postponed.
Capitec comes out tops online
Bank customers express love and loathing online
Local man fights bank after losing his life savings
A Cape Town man is fighting Absa Bank for his life savings which he lost in a transfer facilitated by an employee in the bank’s Sea Point branch.
State wants to go after directors of reckless lenders
The government this week set the wheels in motion to amend the National Credit Act (NCA) to allow for the criminal prosecution of the directors of credit-provider companies that contravene the Act. The aim is to put an end
App takes the hassle out of paying bills – and lets you earn rewards
For those of us who would rather eat roadkill than attend to personal admin, there’s now an app that not only pays your bills – including Telkom, Eskom and municipal accounts – but also enables you to ear
A single mom’s saving plan
There is nothing like a baby to alert the mind to holes in your long-term financial planning.
NCC to hold public inquiry into holiday clubs
The head of the National Consumer Commission (NCC), Ebrahim Mohamed, will appoint a panel of property and consumer law experts to hold a six-month public inquiry into the holiday club and timeshare industry to address R
Silly things you shouldn’t do after an accident
Most people are in a state of shock after a car accident. Everyone responds to shock differently. Some people get angry, others get fearful or go into denial. Whatever the case may be, after an accident you’re probab
Beware of ‘banking ombud’ SMS scam
Scam SMS claims your bank has paid money it owes you to the banking ombudsman’s office
Credit regulator to be probed for failing consumers
The National Credit Regulator and the National Consumer Tribunal are ineffective to the extent that individuals and companies are turning to the courts to obtain justice on behalf of consumers, according to a damning compl
Blow to consumers as court sets aside cap on lending rates
The setting aside of the regulations that cap what microlenders can change you is a “blow to consumers” and confirmation that the National Credit Regulator (NCR) is “inept”.
Saving for retirement is not only about you
If all working people in South Africa saved an appropriate amount for their retirement, children’s education and housing, it would provide investment funding that could help pull our country out of the economic doldr
Law failing consumers drowning in debt
The National Credit Regulator (NCR) needs more muscle to deal with rampant reckless lending, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) says. It needs the power to carry out “proactive” investigations, impose f
Debt balloons despite counselling
The case of a single mother whose debt has ballooned rather than decreased while in debt counselling highlights many of the problems with debt counselling.
How to avoid becoming another victim of banking fraud
More consumers who have been victims of online banking fraud coupled with fraudulent SIM swops came forward this week, following a report in Personal Finance last week about Monica Kruger, a George businesswoman who was de
How a SIM ‘flagged’ by Vodacom was swopped
One week before she was defrauded of R1. 8 million, Monica Kruger, a businesswoman from George in the Western Cape, thwarted an illegal SIM swop.
Bank fraud victim fights for access to information
Monica Kruger doesn’t know who is to blame for the R1. 8-million loss that she suffered when fraudsters carried out an illegal SIM swop before raiding her credit card and home loan accounts to the tune of R2 mil
Who’s to blame for ‘disappearing’ phone data?
Subscribers to all the cellular networks are complaining that their data and airtime are “disappearing”. The networks’ standard response is that your data and airtime can’t just disappear: your smar
What’s eating your phone data and how to stop it
To contain your data costs, you can control your smartphone use, but the “smarter” your smartphone, the more likely you will spend more time online and consume more data than someone with a phone that is not as