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Car and Home Insurance

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By 2 February 2012

So do I…So do I!
Let me tell you a quick insurance story about Brad.
Brad’s daughter got hold of his laptop bright and early one morning after he left it on the kitchen table overnight. After banging around on the keyboard for some time, she got bored and turned her attention ...

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By 26 January 2012

Vehicle owners are being hit hard with thefts of valuables from parked cars as car jamming gangs targets shopping centres and schools in the northern suburbs.  A report on the front page of the Star newspaper yesterday (25 Jan) says a dramatic shootout unfolded at Bryanston Parallel Medium Primary School ...

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By 25 January 2012

2011 was a rough year for many of us!
Let’s take a look at what happened to Paul in 2011…
First off in January his son trashed his dad’s car after a late-night party. No problem at all, the car and home insurance company settled in full.
Then in March, his wife had ...

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By 18 January 2012

Okay, you’ve just come back from a nice, fat holiday at the coast. You’re well-tanned (but slightly thirsty if you were in Ballito during the water shortage!), well rested BUT…its set you back a little more than expected – a couple of thousand Rand more than expected!
So much so, that ...

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By 11 January 2012

Okay, it’s a new year, which means new beginnings.
We’ve got a lot of exciting information lined up for you in 2012, so let me not waste your time and get straight to the point with today’s insurance article.
Here’s a question I was recently asked:
Can your insurance company change the terms ...

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By 6 December 2011

Recently I’ve been writing a series of car and home insurance articles for one of our partners. In my ongoing (and modest) efforts to be creative, I decided to analyse Santam’s car and home insurance policy. I discovered some exciting (to me anyway) benefits that I had forgotten a long ...

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By 27 September 2011

Can you believe it…At the time of preparing this article it was 25 September. In exactly two month’s time from now, you’ll “ten to one” be sitting around a table enjoying Christmas lunch with friends and family, and not be thinking at all about car and home insurance!
This got me ...

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By 15 September 2011

Personally, I’ve never met anyone to whom this insurance situation applies… But who knows, just maybe this article will save you a lot of time, effort, and frustration down the road… And besides – it’s an interesting topic!
Here’s how life insurance works:
You take out one life insurance policy for R1 ...

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By 14 September 2011

So there I was… Preparing a comparative quotation against someone’s existing insurance schedule when I noticed that he only has 30,000 Rand’s worth of theft cover!
So it got me thinking about how many other people might have the same thing in their car and home insurance schedule and don’t ...

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By 5 September 2011

One of our clients recently asked me to get him alternative car and home insurance quotations… which got me thinking about whether cheap insurance is really better in the long run!
Here’s what happened…

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