Category: Personal

  • King Price Insurance – The “King’s Car” Insurance

    King Price Insurance – The “King’s Car” Insurance

    A year ago I decided to sell my old Yaris as it was collecting dust while I was commuting to Jozi every 2nd week. Due to a few changes, I had the opportunity to purchase a car towards the end of last year.

    One of the biggest “missions” with buying a new car is getting insurance sorted before you can take delivery of the car. I hate shopping around and really just want to go with the easiest option out there, and of course the most affordable.

    Some of these insurance companies offer all sorts of deals to help you get cheaper monthly payments. “Drive slower and we’ll give you points cause you healthy”, “Call us in 4 years’ time and we will pay a bonus, but ONLY if you don’t claim”.

    But then I came across the rather interesting offer from King Price Insurance. After doing some digging, I found out they actually end up decreasing your premiums every single month you are insured with them! That’s correct, as an example, every month your insurance premium decreases by R8 a month.

    But if you do the math its:

    Month 1: R8

    Month 2: R8 + R8

    Month 3: R8 + R8 + R8

    The calculation is roughly multiplying the first decrease by 72 to get the total savings per year. Times that by 4 and you will see how it compares to an outbonus for example – but you can’t lose it.
    (The R8 per month is an example based on the value of your premiums)

    If you in the market for car insurance (and I know of a few people reading this who are buying new cars soon :)) I would highly recommend taking a look at King Price!!

  • Time to #StartOver with your money & 22Seven

    Time to #StartOver with your money & 22Seven

    It’s the start of the new financial year, and it’s time to budget those hard earned dollars. I know I can vouch that spending is easy, debt is easier and falling into that trap is horrible. BUT, it’s time to #StartOver.

    If you live in Jozi or on the interwebs, you may have seen all the noise & tweets about a huge SORRY sky written sign in the sky on Friday.SORRY

     

    It’s all part of a campaign from the team at 22Seven encouraging everyone to #StartOver with their money. Money has apologised and said sorry, and now it’s time to be friends again. I even got a personalised apology letter from my money, asking me if we can #StartOver :P

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    I have been using the web & mobile app for the last couple of days, and it really is an awesome app. They give you such amazing insight into your money, and you get to see exactly where it goes. The best part of it all, is that it is FREE!! Really cool :)

    If you want to find out a bit more about the campaign, check out the 22Seven Website and see how you can #StartOver with your money.

    Disclaimer: This is a sponsored post

  • Mazda relaunches in South Africa with the all new Mazda 3

    Mazda relaunches in South Africa with the all new Mazda 3

    I think it was around 1993 I had my first ever “driving lesson” It was a school holiday in Cape Town, and we were visiting my Aunt, who decided we should climb into her sparkly shiny Mazda 323 and go for a lesson. Needless to say there were a couple of hair raising moments, but we survived. Thankfully.

    I recall a number of memories in that Mazda and the other Mazda’s in my aunts family. Not sure if they had a bit of an obsession with the brand, but I can vividly recall about 3 or 4 Mazda vehicles in their family during that period.

    It’s a brand that has been around for years, and is synonymous with South Africans. And earlier this month, the all new Mazda South Africa brand launched as an independant brand from Ford with the very cool looking Mazda 3. The car sports a number of exciting new features and is priced at a very affordable R232,900

    Check out the new All New Mazda 3 TV ad which was produced in SA and takes us through some of the Mazda models from yesteryear.

    So if you in the market for a new car, give the guys at Mazda a shout and give the All New  to see how this brand had lived on through the years. I’ve already booked mine to see how this awesome little car performs!

    [button link=”http://bit.ly/DriveMazda” color=”Red” size=”huge” target=”self”]Book A Test Drive Now[/button]

     

     

     

  • Add Hope during World Hunger Month with KFC

    Add Hope during World Hunger Month with KFC

    I often have the privilege of travelling out to some of our rural communities in KZN to assist with a feeding scheme we are involved in. I have also been following this campaign from the guys at KFC called “Add Hope“, which brings food to those who can’t afford it.

    By simply adding R2 to your next KFC meal, you too can “Add Hope” to someone’s life. When you see hope through the eyes of a child, you see the world in a different way, because children always believe that tomorrow will be better. They know that one day they will be doctors, astronauts or police officers.

    This video of Mikael shows us that there is hope out there. Mikael aspires to be just like superstars Ronaldo & Messi, and wants to be a star soccer player when he grows up.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mi2Y5PfiFgs

    Food security is one of the basic needs on Maslows hierarchy of needs, yet, in South Africa 3,3 million children go to bed hungry every night. You may have no problem providing for this physiological need on a daily basis, but 3,165 million children in South Africa live with household hunger. Malnutrition is associated with more than half of all childhood deaths and the startling stats extend beyond this.

    Having raised over R210 million over the last 6 years, KFC Add Hope currently feeds over 70 000 children every month, through 90 carefully selected national and community beneficiaries.

    Help a child make their dreams come true during World Hunger Month and Add Hope.

     

  • Why the @ILuvDBN & #WeLoveDurban campaign is a HUGE Fraud and Scam!!

    Why the @ILuvDBN & #WeLoveDurban campaign is a HUGE Fraud and Scam!!

    Yesterday the lead story on front page of the Sunday Tribune was about how a certain Durban Digital Media company, was paid R500,000 for a social media campaign called We Love Durban.

    The campaign forms part of a global campaign, called the “Earth Hour City Challenge” by the WWF encouraging cities around the world to tweet on sustainable living. The city with the most tweets, tagged with a dedicated hashtag, by the 27th March will win the competition. To be honest, I’m not really sure what the “prize” is though, except maybe a badge on a website.

    I’m not going to going into the nitty gritty of the shambles of being paid R500,000 for the social media campaign. Mark Smith has already written a pretty comprehensive in depth look into it.

    But, what I am gonna do, is look at how I Luv DBN has been manipulating votes, by creating FAKE twitter accounts to gather more votes. It seems they using an automated BOT, called TweetAdder v4, which adds fake accounts and tweets automated scheduled tweest,

    So, if you do a twitter search on the hashtag #WeLoveDurban, I noticed a number of accounts JUST talking about #WeLoveDurban. When going into these accounts, I saw this is ALL they spoke about. An random example in case is @Alixking2070C, who has posted 155 tweets in 1 WEEK, ALL of them tagged with #WeLoveDurban.

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    Alex King, who lives in Arizona, really LOVES Durban. But she also has 91 followers, and follows 331 people. If we click onto her followers, I see a number of accounts that look rather suspicious.

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    When I clicked onto 3 random followers, they ALL have a similar number of followers, and ALL tweet about #WeLoveDurban

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    Even though this is a fairly small “sample” of people and accounts, I am confident that the large majority of the tweets for this campaign, for the Durban entries, are fake. I have also heard from a number of people that they too have noticed this dodgy behavior and seen similar activities across the brand. They have also stolen a number of images on Instagram and reposted them themselves, without any accreditation.

    This is unacceptable for a worldwide competition, which has a global following, and I really trust the WWF, who is behind this competition does some thorough investigation and analysis to ensure that all tweets are legitimate and non fraudulent before announcing the winners!

    Disclaimer: The above views are my own personal views, and even though I have been contacted (numerous times) by the Agency responsible for this scam, I have declined to take part due to my suspicion around the brand and campaign.

    Update: 17 March 20:35

    Since this post was published earlier today, a number of fake accounts have been deleted. This is proven by the fact that you can no longer any of the above mentioned accounts. As I said above the above accounts were just a sample. 

    The I Love Durban campaign also posted a blog post earlier denying the allegations of the excessive funds as well as claiming “Cyber-Bullying” tactics which were used in the above blog posts. I wish to state that the post is not intended as a “Cyber Bullying” or defamation post, but merly a post stating some of the facts found from proven research. Unless the above facts are proven to be false, I will stand by my above findings.