Adventures of an Expat in South Africa
When you become an expat and are sent overseas, your first three questions to your employer might be: How much will I be paid, which currency will that be in, and how do I get the money to where I need it? When you get paid in your home country and have to make the transfers yourself, you should research the best option. A small difference in fees can turn into a big number.
The following is a guest post by Barbara Bruhwiler.
Sooner or later comes the moment when you will want to pay for something in South Africa. And then you may ask yourself: What payment options are there, and which are the best?
Well, it depends, I would say. It looks a bit as if it depends on the amount ...
“What is the cost of living in South Africa?”
This is the question I am asked most often by people contacting me through my blog (behind “How safe is South Africa,” of course), and it is the one I most dread. Because it is very difficult to answer. Firstly, because we are a ...
This post has been incorporated into Let’s Talk Money, a newer and more comprehensive look at the cost of living in SA.
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I was trying to come up with a snazzy title for this one but there is just no way around telling it as it is. There is nothing exciting about having to open a bank account in a new country. Neither is there much humor ...
I have Jozie Days, one of my readers, to thank for the following insight on choosing the right bank in South Africa. It sounds almost too good to be true, compared to the rather bad and expensive service we get with the bank we – not knowing any better – chose. So I’m hoping some ...
I had some Euros from a recent trip to Germany to put into our South African account, so I thought I’d swing by the bank quickly on my round of errands. But of course I should have known better. Afterwards, I wasn’t sure if I’d just bought a house.
Documents I needed:
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