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I am over-indebted- What are my options?

Dealing with over-indebtedness Debt can create a snowball effect that generates even more debt. When debt repayment pressure becomes too much to handle and you cannot meet all your monthly obligations, you are officially classified as “over-indebted.” Let us take an example: Say you earn R20,000 per month, but your expenses and debt repayments add […]

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Easy Ways To Start Investing With Little Money

How to gain financial literacy

Financial literacy basically refers to your ability to learn, understand, and apply various financial tools, skills, and decision-making processes in order to make financially wise and quality decisions. You were not born financially smart or dumb; your financial knowledge or ignorance developed over a period of time. So it effectively means that it is a […]

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Excessive debt

Top 7 Causes of Excessive Personal Debt

Excessive debt is the most common source of concern for most people, particularly Baby Boomers, who are trapped in millions of Rands (dollars) of debt and unable to escape, forcing them to work in their later years when they should be retiring or nearing retirement. This also affects young professionals who are constantly wanting the […]

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fatten thy lean purse

7 Simple Rules to Fatten a Lean purse!

“The Richest Man in Babylon” written by George S. Clason is a quick-read thin timeless classic book that has been acclaimed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of financial prudence, financial planning, and generating personal wealth. It was written back in the 1920s however the same theme runs through to today. […]

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