Your salary is gone by the 7th
The debit orders hit the day after payday. By the second week you are borrowing to buy food, and the next month starts further behind than the last one.
For South Africans drowning in debt
If your accounts, your loans and your car payment are more than you can afford, debt review is a legal process that reduces what you pay each month and protects what you own. We will tell you in one call whether it is a right solution for you and if it is not, we will say so.
Check if I qualify for debt reliefFree. Confidential. Takes under 2 minutes.
Most people we speak to were managing fine until something changed. See if any of this sounds like your month.

The debit orders hit the day after payday. By the second week you are borrowing to buy food, and the next month starts further behind than the last one.
They call during work. They call your family. You have started leaving your phone face down, and the anxiety of it is heavier than the debt itself.
Money is taken before you ever see it. You cannot budget around it, you cannot negotiate it on your own, and it does not stop on its own.
Without the car you cannot get to work. Without work you cannot pay anything at all. That is the loop that keeps you awake.
Store cards, "pre-approved" loans, top-up offers. Somebody said yes without ever asking if you could actually pay it back. You are the one living with that decision every month, not them.
One account falls behind, so you borrow to cover it. Now there's a new repayment stacked on the old ones, and next month the hole is deeper than this one.
Debt review is a formal process under the National Credit Act. A registered debt counsellor assesses what you earn and what you owe, works out one monthly payment you can actually afford, and negotiates it with your creditors on your behalf. You stop dealing with them. We do.
This is the part most people do not know. Once you are under debt review, your creditors cannot repossess your car or your home for the debts included in the process, as long as you keep up the agreed payment. Protecting what you own is one of the main reasons the process exists.
Once your application is lodged, your creditors are formally notified and collections calls must go through your debt counsellor instead of coming to you. Most people notice the difference within the first few weeks.
We will be straight with you, because nobody else is. While you are under debt review it is recorded on your credit profile, and you cannot take out new credit during that time. When you finish and your accounts are settled, you receive a clearance certificate and the listing is removed. For most people the honest trade is this: your credit record is already suffering from missed payments, and debt review is the route back rather than a new problem.
Answer a few questions about what you owe and what you earn. Two minutes, on your phone, no documents needed yet.
A registered debt counsellor goes through your accounts with you and works out what one affordable monthly payment would look like. If debt review is not right for you, we will tell you that instead.
Once you are under debt review, your creditors go through us. One payment leaves your account via an independent PDA each month and you stop being the person answering the calls. You receive a login to PDA portal to track how you money is distributed to your creditors, you don’t pay us directly to ensure your funds are not mismanaged.
“The calls stopped within the first week. That alone was worth it.”
CALLS STOPPED WEEK ONE

Thabo Mokoena
Johannesburg, Gauteng
“One call and I finally had a number I could actually afford each month.”
ONE AFFORDABLE PAYMENT

Keanu Hendricks
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal
“I was terrified about losing my car. They explained it was protected before I even had to ask.”
KEPT THE CAR

Pieter van der Merwe
Cape Town, Western Cape
“No judgement, just a straight answer about what I qualified for.”
HONEST ASSESSMENT

Amahle Dlamini
Bloemfontein, Free State
“The garnishee order was the scariest part. They dealt with it properly.”
GARNISHEE ADDRESSED

Chantel Cupido
Gqeberha, Eastern Cape
“I'd put it off for months out of shame. The call was nothing like I expected.”
EASIER THAN EXPECTED

Anika du Plessis
Pretoria, Gauteng
“They told me upfront what it would mean for my credit record. Nobody else had.”
UPFRONT ABOUT EVERYTHING

Sibusiso Khumalo
Rustenburg, North West
“Two accounts behind, one call, and I had an actual plan by the end of it.”
PLAN IN ONE CALL

Dillon October
Polokwane, Limpopo
“My salary finally stretches to the end of the month again.”
SALARY STRETCHES AGAIN

Francois Joubert
Nelspruit, Mpumalanga
“I called three companies. This was the only one that didn't oversell me.”
NO OVERSELLING

Lerato Ndlovu
Soweto, Gauteng
“They assessed it properly and told me what it would actually cost, not a vague number.”
REAL NUMBERS UPFRONT

Rashieda Abrahams
Stellenbosch, Western Cape
“Unknown numbers don't scare me anymore.”
PHONE ANXIETY GONE

Liezel Botha
Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal
“My wife and I did the call together. They walked us through everything as a couple.”
HANDLED AS A FAMILY

Bongani Sithole
Welkom, Free State
“I was self-employed and worried I wouldn't qualify. They knew exactly what to ask for.”
SELF-EMPLOYED, NO PROBLEM

Gareth Pretorius
Sandton, Gauteng
“Store accounts, a loan, vehicle finance — all in one payment now.”
EVERYTHING IN ONE PAYMENT

Wayne Fortuin
East London, Eastern Cape
“I finally slept properly the night after that call.”
SLEPT PROPERLY AGAIN

Matthew Smith
Mahikeng, North West
“They didn't rush me. I asked every question I had.”
EVERY QUESTION ANSWERED

Nomvula Ncube
Tzaneen, Limpopo
“Retrenched last year, drowning since. This was the first real help I got.”
FIRST REAL HELP

Stacey-Lee Jacobs
Witbank, Mpumalanga
“I was worried about losing the house. That was the first thing they addressed.”
HOME PROTECTED

Sarah Gallagher
Centurion, Gauteng
“It's not what I expected debt review to be. Far less scary.”
LESS SCARY THAN EXPECTED

Katlego Molefe
Paarl, Western Cape
“They told me honestly that removal was a separate process, and pointed me the right way.”
POINTED IN RIGHT DIRECTION

Gavin Carelse
Ballito, KwaZulu-Natal
“One payment leaves my account now instead of five different debit orders fighting for space.”
FIVE DEBITS BECAME ONE

Kobus Erasmus
Kroonstad, Free State
“I was ashamed to make the call. Nobody made me feel that way once I did.”
NO JUDGEMENT

Lucretia Pietersen
Benoni, Gauteng
“They explained what happens to my credit record properly, good and bad.”
FULL PICTURE, NO SPIN

Zolani Ntwana
Uitenhage, Eastern Cape
“Commission income and they still worked out a number that made sense.”
VARIABLE INCOME, STILL WORKED

Tamaryn September
Potchefstroom, North West
“Two minutes on the quiz, one call, and I had a plan by that afternoon.”
PLAN BY THAT AFTERNOON

Melanie Taylor
Mokopane, Limpopo
“I've recommended them to my brother, who's in the same situation.”
RECOMMENDED TO FAMILY

Naledi Modise
Middelburg, Mpumalanga
THE QUESTIONS PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO ASK
It takes about two minutes and costs nothing. If debt review is not the right answer for you, we will tell you that on the call.
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