I had to make a trip to SARS in Cape Town this am to hand in the 6 paper provisional tax returns that I cant get on efiling – this is despite several email and telephonic requests to SARS to get them on e-filing.
As I arrived there I was greeted by the site in the [...]
So Eskom’s been granted increases of 24.8%, 25.8% and 25.9% for the next 3 years. Not as big as they wanted but still significant. What does it mean for us as consumers?
There is a beautiful little rule called the “rule of 72″ which states if you want to know how quickly something will double in [...]
Oh dear…the old adage certainly rings true (yet again). Following on the most recent post about Fundisa, a friend and I were re-doing the maths…seems like I got it totally wrong…apologies for that!
The returns seemed too good to be true – the problem is with my maths and understanding of how the product works…which raises [...]
PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THE EXPLANATION OF FUNDISA’S RETURNS IS INCORRECT – IT WILL BE CORRECTED IN A LATER POST. Gregg
Currently the cost of a university degree is about R31000-R35000 per year, so over 3 years that is pretty much R100000. If varsity fees continue to increase at levels above inflation then this will increase [...]
