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Financial knowledge is power only if you apply it

ONE of my favourite sayings is “Financial literacy, just like weight loss, isn’t dependent on one thing. It’s 20% education and 80% your action.”

A year into the Covid-19 pandemic, I’m reminded of a young woman I interacted with a few months before South Africa’s initial hard lockdown. She was thinking of taking out retrenchment cover. Two months into lockdown, when we were all cooped up in our nests and

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