Articles by Alina Hardcastle
Tips to avoid funeral cover exploitation
This week, Bromfield offers a guiding hand, educating consumers on how to avoid exploitation when taking out or being offered funeral cover.
Proposed taxation of sugar-sweetened beverage tax
Treasury have published the proposal for the sugar tax on beverages on its website and are asking members of the public for comment. This follows after Finance Minister, Pravin Gordhan, announced in his budget speech that sugary drinks would be ...
Tips for seller’s in a buyer’s market
Wanting to offload your home onto the market? Sellers, hold your horses. A recent survey conducted by First National Bank (FNB), indicated that the tables might be turning in the favour of home buyers. Unfortunately for many, who are in a finan...
Propety fox; the alternative way to sell your home
Are you looking for an alternative and more economical way to maximise your profits when offloading your home? Property Fox is a young tech company that went live at the beginning of this year. It claims that if you make use of its ser...
Drug ATMs launching in South Africa
Just like withdrawing money from an ATM, South Africans will soon able to obtain their medication from a self-service ATM-like machine. The Department of Health made this announcement, along with others, at the International Aids Conference, wh...
Should you lease or buy a car?
A majority of South Africans tend to stick to the conventional vehicle finance model i.e. installment sales agreements or taking out a loan to finance a vehicle.
Taxify: there’s a new kid on the block
From disputes to court cases, it appears that metered taxis are the least of Uber’s problems, as another competitor has entered the private transportation industry. Taxify, an Estonia based-taxi booking service is currently offering their...
An entire year without load shedding…..Hooray
Yesterday (9 August 2016), Eskom celebrated 365 day of no loading shedding. The power utility has said that this is largely attributed to the rigorous plant maintenance programme that they have executed over the past 12 months.
Lotto winners: catch them if you can
After desperately seeking R87.6 million and R12 million Lotto Powerball jackpot winners, it appears that Ithuba National Lottery is continuously on the hunt for their Lotto winners. So why are these mystery winners playing so hard to get? ...
Reduction in medicine registration backlogs
Last week, the Medicine Control Council (MCC) announced plans to reduce the backlogs in the registration of unregistered medicines. Since the announcement, pharmaceutical firms have warmly welcomed the council’s decision. The National As...
Insurance: Items that are generally overlooked
In life we generally overlook the small things and when it comes to insurance, we are no different. While our main focus lies on items such as motor vehicles, a home and its content, Bertus Visser, chief executive of distribution at PSG insure ...
Reduction in junior doctor’s working hours
After the death of junior doctor Ilne Markwat, the Western Cape’s Health Department has announced the reduction of junior doctors working hours. Markwat died following a vehicle accident which has been blamed on exhaustion follow an exces...