The first step in your financial journey is always to pay off short term debt and then to save an emergency fund. Only then can you start investing. Usually, my advice here would be to stick to well-diversified local and international Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). Recently, however, the government retail bonds have started looking extremely …
South Africa is one of the countries that implemented a national minimum wage. Globally, the majority of countries have some sort of minimum on the amount you can pay someone for work. Minimum wage can be implemented on a national, state or sector level. Although a minimum wage is widely adopted around the world, there …
This is the second article in the Government series of articles. The role of the South African Reserve Bank (SARB) is to “achieve and maintain price stability in the interest of balanced and sustainable economic growth in South Africa”. This is extremely broad, so I will delve into some of the most important things that …
There is a need to make some local Government resources available. From time to time I will just do a few posts to fulfil this need. These posts will be on top of the usual weekly posts. This post about the Government Employee Pension Fund is the first in this series of about 5 posts …
