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Energy Analysts and Experts have warned that a National Blackout is entirely possible - if not probable - as beleaguered power utility, Eskom, races against time to keep South Africa's lights on. What does a national blackout entail, how probable is it, and how did South Africa get here?

Insurance companies and clients don’t always see eye to eye. We took a look at the most common causes of dispute and how to avoid them.

We're still licking our March wounds, but we can already expect another massive fuel price increase in April. Of course, this is no ordinary increase either - it's a double blow for SA motorists - because the general fuel and RAF levies are coming into effect as well. Ouch.

The strike may be over, but the Department of Transport and the DLCA are still sitting on a massive backlog of drivers' licence applications - numbering in the hundreds of thousands. What happens when you get fined?

Instead of fixing our pothole-cratered roads, and despite clear public disdain and opposition, the government has thrown the failed e-toll system a R5.6 billion lifeline. It lives to waste another day.

Taxes, fuel prices, levies, tolls and now renewal fees - the increases are battering South African motorists. The Department of Transport has announced a hike in our compulsory annual licence renewal fees for sometime this year. Let's take a look at how much extra we'll have to fork out.

Beleaguered state-owned-vampire, Eskom, has been granted three consecutive years of tariff increases. With electricity about to become a whole lot more expensive, we ask the question, is it finally time to go off grid?

Beleaguered state-owned-vampire, Eskom, has been granted three consecutive years of tariff increases. With electricity about to become a whole lot more expensive, we ask the question, is it finally time to go off grid?

Despite universal opposition to the Road Accident Benefit Scheme - which has been labelled as controversial, criminal, obscene, abhorrent, unconstitutional and appalling – the South African government is pushing to get this monstrous scheme passed into law. This article is not for the faint hearted.

We already pay monthly premiums, so why all the extra excess payments? We look at the different types of excess and how they affect you.

Brace yourself, South Africa, we're in for a rough one. There's a massive hike in the fuel price just a day or two away, and the country is under Tax Attack. We took a look at how much fuel is going to cost us come June, and it's not pretty.

Have you recently bought a second-hand car at a really good price? Beware! There's another second-hand car scam making the rounds in South Africa, and the SAPS is clamping down on over 20 000 vehicles a year.