April Pressure, Debt Review and the South Africans Living on Borrowed Breathing Room
There is a specific kind of financial fear that creeps in before the month even starts. It begins with a rise you cannot control, fuel, electricity, school costs, groceries, and then quietly becomes a maths problem your salary can no longer solve. That is the atmosphere surrounding this episode of Making Sense, where Gareth Edwards speaks to Anneline Van Der Poel from Debt Rescue about what financial pressure now looks like in real South African households.
Here are the key threads that make this conversation land:
1. The crisis is no longer about luxury spending
One of the clearest ideas in the episode is that many consumers are not sinking into debt…