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Non-payment of pension fund money: storm in a Twitter cup?

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MY MOTHER always told me that the truth has three sides, namely my truth, your truth, and the true truth that lies somewhere between my truth and your truth. Strange as it sounds, the statement holds a lot of truth in our media-driven society.

A storm in a Twitter cup recently erupted when an insurer and fund administrator was accused of not paying the pension money of the mother of a complainant, even though her mother had a court order.

Armed with only these facts, we started throwing stones, bricks and threats to cancel our policies at Goliath in support of David.

By the time we got access to the other side of the story, Goliath was in intensive care and the reputational damage was already done.

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