NCR warns credit providers against holding consumers' IDs ahead of Elections2019 busrep
JOHANNESBURG – The National Credit Regulator is urging credit providers to desist from retaining consumers’ cards and identity documents.
The credit regulator, which is an entity of the Department of Trade and Industry , urged all consumers whose bank cards, South African Social Security Agency cards and identity documents, which were taken by credit providers to collect them. The regulator further appealed to consumers to report such matters to their local South African Police Service and the NCR.
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