Expert tips, strategies, and insights to help you master your finances and achieve your financial goals
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What a mashonisa really charges, what the law allows a registered lender to charge, and what to try first. Includes how to get out of an unregistered loan and where to report threats or a lender holding your card or ID.
What SABRIC 2025 figures show, how safe account calls, OTP requests and remote-access scams work, five rules that stop most of them, what to do in the first hour after a scam, and where to complain.
What you are owed, how to claim UIF, how many months your money will last and what to do about debt, medical aid and your pension. A step-by-step plan with a worked rand example for South Africans who have just lost their job.
The 52-week challenge saves R13,780 starting at R10 a week, but the same total as a flat R265 weekly. Size it from your hardest week and pick a start date that fits the South African year.
Most South African loyalty cards pay back between 0.5% and 2% on an ordinary shop. Here is what each programme really returns and how points pressure gets you to spend more.
Food inflation is near 1%, yet the grocery total still hurts. Find your real number, cook from the VAT-free staples and stop paying for food you bin.
One R20,000 salary run through 50/30/20, zero-based, envelope, bill-first and anti-budget methods, so you can see which one fits your month.
A budget for one person breaks at four because the costs do not grow the same way. Sort them into fixed, per-head and yearly costs and you can build a family budget that holds.
A 13th cheque is not free money. It lands in the most expensive month in South Africa, so decide what it is for before it arrives. Here is a split that keeps December fun and January calm.