It's World Consumer Rights Day on March 15 th - a great opportunity to talk about being assertive when you're unhappy with shoddy service delivery or products, and the correct way to lodge a dispute. The 2004 National Consumer Survey found that...
The stark social reality is that one out of two marriages in SA ends in divorce, and the impact of these separations, particularly in hostile situations, is devastating for children. What's the best thing to do when your spouse starts resembling a...
As we've been informed by Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, from April 7th, beleaguered consumers will be coughing up an additional 25.5c per litre of petrol and diesel. If ever there was a time to become frugal with fuel, it's now. The increase...
Imagine a world in which compulsive shoppers have themselves micro-chipped, (in the same way that morbidly obese people resort to gastric bypass surgery to prevent themselves from eating a trolley full of chocolate biscuits or crisps!) Any attempt to...
"Oops, I think this fuzzy grey stuff in the fridge used to be yoghurt..." Sound familiar? We throw away around one third of the food we buy, (UK's WRAP statistics) and at least half of it is food that could still have been eaten. Wasting...
New York Times best-selling author A.J. Jacobs outsourced his life to Brickworks , an IT company in India, for a month. His polite virtual assistant, Honey Balani, took over his diary, banking, shopping, and personal tasks such as arguing with his wife...
Like everyone else who saw the movie, I salivated through most of the cooking scenes in Julie and Julia. Meryl Streep's portrayal of 1950's American icon Julia Child was quirkily brilliant, and the food was delectable. Realistically though, who...
It's just a few months away: the Big Event, during which schools will be closed for a month, an estimated one million soccer fans from around the globe will be disembarking and we, the locals, have the choice of either taking part or going somewhere...
It's my little daughter's first day at ‘big school'... a huge calendar event for her and her parents. I was able to buy most of the very practical, golf-shirt-and-jeans uniform directly from her school, so my mall crawl wasn't too...
2010 is as soft and unblemished as an infant in a receiving blanket, and generally speaking, people's attitudes seem to reflect a sense of renewed possibility. We're all hoping for better luck this year. What exactly is it about certain people...
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