President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the controversial debt-relief bill into law last week.

The legislation provides for the extinguishing of the debt of heavily indebted consumers who earn a gross monthly income of no more than R7,500, have unsecured debt amounting to R50,000 and who have been found to be critically indebted. ..

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