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Using the balloon payment option to buy a car you can't afford might look tempting, but it carries much risk that can hurt your finances in the long run.

Tiger Brands is initiating a precautionary voluntary recall of its Benny beef and chicken flavoured stock cubes due to inaccurate nutritional labelling on the pack.

In March 2018 a listeriosis outbreak that killed 218 people was traced to Tiger Brands’ Polokwane facility

The Pension Funds Adjudicator has sounded the alarm on companies that do not pay over employee funds to administrators as two-pot claims mount in the first week of the retirement savings system.

Superbalist has struggled to compete with online Chinese retailers Shein and Temu

The platform is accused of encouraging sellers to offer counterfeit items and substandard products

Cape Town resident Elroy Goliath worked hard to enjoy the privilege of owning a latest-generation Jeep Grand Cherokee. However, with the vehicle immobile he has been driving Isuzu and Toyota courtesy vehicles for the past few months.

Claims relating to cars made up about 40% of complaints lodged by policyholders to the ombudsman for short-term insurance last year, most involving accident-related claims rejected because of an exclusion in the policy.

A Supreme Court of Appeal judgment this week went against the buyer of a home who unwittingly paid R5.5m into the bank account of a fraudster instead of that of a law firm.

The fast food chain says it has taken action against a franchise shop which threatened customer-facing staff whose orders don’t include sufficient Add Hope donations.

The fraudsters who got their hands on the policy schedules of some Discovery Insure clients didn’t stage an elaborate cyberhack into the company’s server; they simply impersonated the policyholders and got call centre agents to e-mail those schedules to them.

The company said the breach affected 20 clients and it has appointed forensic specialists to investigate, while offering support to its customers.

Finding pieces of plastic in the pack of pets’ mince she’d bought was bad enough, but having her concerns dismissed by butchery staff was the last straw for a Food Lovers' customer.

Some had placed and paid for multiple orders - one of them 25 items, Makro confirmed - and almost half of them (46%) were first-time customers.

Pensioner Leon Bredenkamp traded in his trusty Toyota Corolla for a newer car that had been seriously damaged in a collision — and then rebuilt and sold on