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FROM THE EDITOR<br />

Where were you in 2014?<br />

In 2014 our team were helping host the first<br />

annual Debt Review Awards in Cape Town. Around<br />

100 guests crammed into the financially historic<br />

building on Spin street and heard the results of the<br />

various industry panels.<br />

Since then the process has changed and now an industry peer<br />

review process helps identify who will take home the Golden<br />

Piggy Bank Awards each year.<br />

This month the team were once again busy helping host the<br />

10th annual Awards event. A decade has flown by.<br />

And what do we have to show for 10 years?<br />

Well, more loadshedding, new wars in new places, global<br />

warming causing extreme weather, a weaker Rand and higher<br />

inflation. We have seen a global pandemic come and go (kinda<br />

go) and things have been tough, for sure.<br />

What we do now see is a much matured debt review industry.<br />

We now see a higher use of the NCT to help keep consumers

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