South Africans appear to be paying no attention to the interest they earn on money in their savings accounts, if research by Capitec bank is anything to go by.

A series of polls by the bank found that 59% of respondents with a savings plan do not know how much interest they are earning. And a whopping 86% of respondents do not know what “lazy money” is.  ..

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