MONEY TALKS IN YOUR LANGUAGE

Warda Salvester

IN 2010, I was in charge of the Western Cape arm of a national project set up by the Department of Trade and Industry and the Credit Ombudsman. The aim was to look at the accessibility of financial information to ordinary South African consumers. The results were dismal and things haven’t really changed much since then. Our communities simply don’t have adequate access to suitable financial information. We continue to have people who don’t have a damn clue about our lived reality and experiences, using highly paid ads to give us financial advice and information. Most of these rah-rah financial commentators simply don’t understand how much it truly costs the ordinary person just to get to work via public transport, or how people have to choose between buying either electricity…

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Daily Voice (Digital) - 1 Issue, 2022-05-03

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