The Department of Trade and Industry (dti) has urged consumers to exercise their consumer rights.
"Ignorance and failure to exercise consumer rights and policies will continue to fuel the never-ending vicious cycle that continues to condemn most of our consumers to a life of permanent debt and abuse at the hands of unscrupulous lenders and service providers that prey on the lack of readily available knowledge and information," said the dti's Director of Policy and Legislation, Siphamandla Kumkani, on Wednesday.
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