When you apply for any loan your credit information will be graded for risk potential. Credit scoring software looks at five areas of your credit reports:
• Your Payment History
• Amounts You Owe
• Length of Your Credit History
• Types of Credit Used
• Your New Credit
Credit Health offers some useful tips to increase your credit score:
1. Draw [...]
Tip of the Week: How to improve your credit score
Published in May 23rd, 2008
Posted by Emma Donovan in Top Tips
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As Africans we should all celebrate Africa Day
Published in May 22nd, 2008
Posted by Emma Donovan in News Update
25 May is the 45th anniversary of Africa Day. It is a day to acknowledge and celebrate African history, heritage and culture. Apart from celebrations, Africa Day should be a day for every one of us to stop just talking about the turmoil around us and actually get up and do something. [...]
Joining the ‘Twitterverse’
Published in May 21st, 2008
We’re on Twitter! According to Wikipedia, “Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (SMS), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook”.
Twitter is essentially a micro [...]
Fuel-Saving Pill
Published in May 20th, 2008
Posted by Emma Donovan in News Update
MPG Cap tablets claim to save up to 14% of fuel consumption.
There has been a lot of debate around the MPG Cap in the media over the past week. In a Consumer Watch article, Wendy Knowler states that she was initially sceptical about the ‘wonder fuel tablet’, “but the more I researched this product, the [...]
Attention all university students!
Published in May 19th, 2008
Posted by Emma Donovan in General
getclosure! is running a monthly competition about consumer rights, remedies and remedy providers. The idea behind it is to mobilise students to increase awareness about relevant consumer issues. All registered university students in South Africa can enter by submitting a 250 word article on the getclosure! website. Selected articles will be published [...]
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