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Art of Superwoman hosted a webinar this past weekend, tackling issues linked with money and relationships that a lot of couples grapple within their unions, especially during the pandemic. Money is the leading issue that couples clash over and evidence highlights that...
Conversations around finances have always been tricky to navigate but are extremely crucial to have as we journey to setting ourselves up to reach our financial goals. As we prepare for this week’s Art of Superwoman Webinar on The Pandemic’s Effects on Finances and...
First published in Sunday Times, August 2020 - a year later after writing this piece I can rewrite it and it would still be relevant. So I ask you as a South African woman, does your workplace have a deliberate acquisition and retention strategy for women? Does your...
Who do you absolutely trust with your personal finances? Is it your spouse, lifelong best friend, sibling or no one at all? Who do you rely on, to talk you out of a bad financial decision or perhaps steer you in the right direction for a major financial shift in your...
‘Tshitokofela’ is the Tshivenda word for Stokvel. I heard this term being thrown around a lot in my late childhood and teenage years. I witnessed my mother join different stokvels year after year, and sometimes she’d be part of more than two at a time. When the...
Before we could easily access print publications online, I remember how we would eagerly wait for the weekly delivery of the Sunday newspaper at home. So, this is how we would split and rotate the newspaper. Dad would have the first dibs of the current affairs...
In part two of our savings month series, previously, we dug deeper to find out common excuses that we often have when the savings topic comes up. Through the advice of financial advisers we are now knowledgeable about how to overcome those excuses. In part three...
If a fortune teller drew you closer to their crystal ball, laying out a picture of what your financial future looks like, would you be impressed? Well I guess some of us would be hoping she makes up a glorious future and sells us dreams because reality is well… bleak....
Someone once said, there is no force more powerful than a woman determined to rise and as we celebrate National Chartered Accountants Day, which originates from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI), celebrating their 73rd Anniversary today, we bring...
Growing up, my parents always told me about saving money. Without revealing my age, R5 when I was in school could get me two packets of small chips, sweet iceblock, and bubblegum. My dad gave me R5 as pocket money, and he always told me to save at least R2 from the R5...
If this blog post was published in the 1950s, it would raise some eyebrows mainly because of how traditional beliefs were hammered into shaping perspectives and observing the hierarchy that defined gender roles. The typical stereotype for women to take care of...
Ladies, let’s talk. While we might agree that there’s some progressive changes in the perceptions and lived realities of power dynamics in relationships today, when it comes to finances, we do experience some form of limitations. In most instances, it is the woman...
Historically, women are not expected to be financially independent in their relationships. It’s often a taboo that they would have an amount of money kept away for themselves and be able to exclude it from a relationship, especially when married in...
… let’s continue from where we left off shall we? Oniomania, a new word we learnt from last week’s Womenomics blog post about the financial implications of being a shopaholic, which Financial Advisor, Sheila-Anne Robey simply defined as the act of being a consumer...
