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As a South African who has lived in Germany for a few years and finally thinking of returning, buying and financing a retirement home, the idea of having a service that takes care of your repatriation of Euros to ZAR, obtaining a South African mortgage and ensuring you are within the correct tax laws and [...]

Every year I look at what my personal and company tax liability will be to see if I should send money overseas for an investment, buy property, pay my debts or transfer money to the UK for an investment, whatever the case is; I will need to know what I am in for. So I [...]

So what did we get this year Budget deficit The deficit is estimated higher, at 5.2% of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2012/13 (shortfall of R16.3bn). It is budgeted to come down to 4.6% in 2013/14 and 3.1% in 2015/16. Growth and inflation Economic growth has been adjusted slightly downward from last year’s budget with [...]

Standard Bank’s launches cash transfer solution to Zimbabwe   What a great bit of news for all our Zimbabwian brothers and sisters living in SA and sending money home. Standard Bank and Stanbic Zimbabwe have teamed up with OK Zimbabwe Limited to offer person-to-person money transfers in real time from South Africa to Zimbabwe. No [...]

I recall about 20 years ago when the then Top Rabbi of New York told his fellow Jews who were leaving South Africa, that the safest place to be in the beginning of the 201….. somethings was South Africa.  Even with the high crime rate, we seem to be living fine here, politics are exciting, [...]