Sasi campaign to improve financial literacy

Last week the SA Savings Institute (Sasi) kicked off its annual financial literacy campaign to help students manage their personal finances better.

The organisation’s effort piggy-backed on national savings month, a month-long corporate-driven initiative to increase awareness of the need to save across all sectors of society. Old[...]

Pinching pennies & saving cents

While some may believe that SA’s recession is forcing students to grow up too quickly, the reality is that financial responsibility cannot be learnt too soon. There was a time when being a student was about enjoying a few years of “intellectual hedonism”; a mixture of acquiring an education[...]

Financial seduction

You’ve seen them in movies. You’ve read their personal profiles in business magazines. Maybe there’s a couple in your economics class – financial whiz kids. They’re the ones going through the business section of the daily paper with a high-lighter and checking up their stock portfolios on their laptops.[...]

The hardest cut

Ask yourself if you really need that purchase and, if not, just walk away

Tertiary students often rely on allowances from their parents. These are meant to last a certain period of time. Strangely enough, some of those parents get calls from their children asking for more cash because[...]

Living within your means, and loving it

As a student you have probably got champagne tastes, but here’s why you should stick to a beer budget. Last week, finance minister Trevor Manuel announced the national budget, allocating funds to various government departments to realise national policy. The national budget is a big deal. And, albeit on[...]