It is quite ironic that we celebrate Worker’s Day and Mother’s Day in the same month, as here in South Africa we have many working Mums, and sadly many of these are single working Mums too. You may be lucky to be a working Mum who is working simply to add a financial...
In this month of April, we celebrate an important day in South Africa’s history. As Wikipedia puts it ‘Freedom Day is a public holiday in South Africa celebrated on 27 April. It celebrates freedom and commemorates the first post-apartheid elections held on that day in...
So another budget speech has come and gone and as always there has been much comment about the new budget and what it means to all of us. As always there was good news and bad, advantages to be had by those who choose to invest in certain areas and disadvantages for...
The recent World Cancer Day reminded us once again of the severity of this dreaded disease and the massive toll that it takes on the population of every country in the world. As always we are reminded that prevention is better than cure, but unfortunately, this often...
This month we will celebrate our Human Rights Day and we can all be grateful for the efforts of those who faced such hardship in the past so that today we are all deemed equal and can boast one of the best constitutions in the world. This constitution gives us all...
We all need to pay taxes. This is obvious and not something that can be argued with. No country can survive without taxation and it is the chief source of income for any Governing party. For many reasons, however, which we don’t need to go into here, a lot of tax...
