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[TOP STORY] Sarb’s rule change adds red tape for offshore investors

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‘We’ve worked so hard over the last two years to get off the FATF grey list and make it attractive for foreign investment, and now you throw sand in their eyes and make it difficult for them to invest here,’ says Michael Kransdorff, director of the Institute for International Tax and Finance.

10 Nov 2025 7AM English South Africa Business News · Politics

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