Category - NDA Blog

Banks don’t want your house   Surprisingly enough, the banks don’t want your house, so when it comes to repossession of assets...remember there is always a plan to be made. Usually one of the biggest monthly expenses, also becoming one of the...

The Father’s Day Gift You Give Yourself   When you become a parent, you are more than willing to do whatever it takes to care for your child and give them the best life possible. For many parents, this means risking their own financial...

Types of debt in South Africa   Many types of debt are available to the average consumer, from short and long term to secured and unsecured, all these terms and processes become jumbled after a while. For the average consumer, all this jargon...

Unemployment in South Africa   While South Africa’s unemployment rate had been ranked as the worst in the world not so long ago, the latest results of the Quarterly Labour Force Survey released by Statistics South Africa revealed that...

Tips For When You Get Rich Instantly   Most of us wish that we could win the lottery or inherit a large sum of money, in order to buy a dream home, a luxury car, or go on a lavish vacation. However, most people don’t realise that after...

Zuma’s Cabinet Reshuffle   In October 2017, President Jacob Zuma decided to reshuffle his cabinet for the eleventh time since he took office. The President’s cabinet reshuffle had many negative implications for our country, as it led to the...

Consumer Debt in South Africa   On the 4th of May 2017, parliament offered to assist the National Credit Regulator with the issue of indebtedness, after the regulators informed MPs that consumer debt in South Africa had reached the R1.6tn...

How Car Buyers Can Survive South Africa’s Status Downgrade   With the recent economic downgrade, South Africa’s ailing economy is set to cast a dark shadow on motorists and new car buyers. South Africa’s Vehicle Pricing Index (VPI) has...

Retaining sway in South Africa: Zuma’s next in line   As he counts his days, stuck between a call for impeachment and the nearing end of his term, Zuma it seems is seeking to extend his hold over the country through someone else – his ex-wife,...

South Africans Protest Outside Bell Pottinger Head Office   The beginning of 2017 has not been a favourable time for Bell Pottinger, a UK-based PR firm that was commissioned to save the reputation and improve the public appearance of President...

An Unpopular Merge   It is a sad fact that politicians love power, and they tend to gain more of it through amalgamating bureaucratic institutions. Usually, the amalgamation of institutions is seen as an unpopular merge, and this is because...

The Rest of Brexit   After a nine-month separation period, the United Kingdom has officially sent the European Union the much-awaited divorce letter. Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has invoked Article 50 of the Lisbon...