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Big trouble for anyone earning more than R20,000 a month in South Africa | SA News

Staff Writer
 ·19 Nov 2025

The latest data from DebtBusters on household debt shows that South Africans earning more than R20,000 have to spend almost three-quarters of their income paying off loans.

Worse still, salary growth for this band of income earners has declined over the last nine years, while inflation has shot up by 51%.

According to the DebtBusters Debt Index for the third quarter of the year, there has been an increased demand from consumers for debt management.

The group anticipates this demand to increase even further as households face…

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