Tag: finances
Understanding interest rates and how it affects your finances
Interest rates have been rising consistently worldwide and it doesn’t look like this trend is going to stop anytime soon. This makes 2023 a daunting financial prospect for many South Africans...
Considering a child? Here’s what it will cost you…
Many of us approach starting a family the same way we do our Christmas shopping: we charge full-steam ahead with much excitement and little forethought…and deal with the financial fall-out later.
Yet,...
How you behave determines how you invest
Famous 19th century American poet, Emily Dickinson, once said, “Behaviour is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes”. It is this notion that pervades throughout human history...
South Africa’s minimum wage problem
The Department of Employment of Labour has called for comments on a new minimum wage target for South Africa in 2022, with the national minimum wage commission indicating that the national minimum wage...
Old Mutual research probes impact of financial pressures on South Africans
Millions of South Africans are feeling heightened financial pressures due to the Covid-19 pandemic and lockdown as well as the recent unrest that unfolded in some of our provinces, says Old...
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SEW-Eurodrive ‘closes the loop’ with new service and repair centre
As part of its strategy to ‘close the loop’ in its service offering, SEW-EURODRIVE South Africa, a specialist in drive and control technologies, has...