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    ‘The biggest money MISTAKE I ever made’

    Jun 17, 2019 5 minutes
    BY CHARIS TORRANCE

    According to debt management firm Debt Rescue, South Africans collectively owe R1,64 trillion. Clearly, the debt trap is easy to fall into – and difficult to claw your way out of. Even the experts make mistakes. So in the interests of learning from them, we asked five local money gurus to confess their biggest financial sins and tell us what they would have done differently.

    FALLING FOR STORE CARDS

    Kristia van Heerden, CEO at Just One Lap and co-host of financial podcast The Fat Wallet Show

    By the time I was 25, I had managed to get into a R100000 debt hole

    ‘It all started in 2008 when I was sent a store card in the mail with R1 500 credit on it. At the time I was working part-time and earning only about R5 000 a

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