Daily Voice 2025-07-24

SOUTH Africans are less stressed about money, but pressures persist. On Tuesday, 22 July 2025 – DebtBusters made public their fourth annual Money-Stress Tracker, which surveyed over 27 000 mense during May and June. This makes it one of the largest online surveys about how financial stress impacts lives. To me, the biggest and most surprising revelation of the survey showed how South Africans are less worried about money than they have been for the past two years. Despite this, money stress remains a big issue for many people. The 2025 survey found that 70 percent of respondents experienced money stress. This is down from 78 percent in 2023 and 75 percent in 2024. Although the extent of financial anxiety is declining, the impact on daily life continues to take…

IN A DRAMATIC twist of events, alleged baby snatcher, Sameemah Jacobs, said she suffers from bipolar disorder. This, as the State presented crucial cellphone evidence on Wednesday, alluding that she had represented herself as three different persons while carrying out the crime. Jacobs, 37, was widely supported by her family at the Bellville Magistrates Court where she faces charges of kidnapping and defeating the ends of administrative justice. Closing arguments in her much- anticipated bail application continued where Sergeant Dawid Fortuin presented new evidence, that of cellphone records, regarding the merits of the State’s case. Fortuin, from the Serious and Violent Crimes Unit for Kidnapping, took the witness stand armed with the evidential cellphone records, in which he detailed that they had confiscated cellphones from Jacobs following her arrest, one…

THE sopkombuis at CL Wilmot Primary School in Uitsig was targeted by diewe over the school holidays leaving the learners without a daily warm meal. After the skelms stole equipment and non-perishable foods, the school was forced to adjust its meal plan from a hearty meal to sandwiches. Community activist and Early Crime Prevention facilitator at the school, Pastor Adam Alexander, said that the criminals stole all the dry ingredients meant for the feeding scheme. The diewe made off with rice, blikkie vis, chicken livers, pots, the school’s urn as well as kragdrade and equipment. To make it even worse, he added that the skelms sold the kos in the community. Damage Alexander told the Daily Voice: “We are very disappointed. These criminals did great damage to the school and…