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WHEN you miss payments, a creditor will try to contact you. If they don’t get a response and you don’t arrange a repayment plan, they may hire a debt collector to collect the outstanding money.
By December last year nearly 10 million South African consumers had an impaired credit record. This means they’re at least three months behind on payments or have
