I'm sure, that once the thread is completed, a few folks (local & international) will have learned a few lessons from a combination of my own mistakes & a business scenario which actively supports unscrupulous business practices. SA always did have a fairly rough-&-tough business environment, but things have definitely become worse as the legal systems have degraded.You claim your thread is about helping people...
A fair amount of difficulty can be attributed to a cowboy/pioneering attitude, operating within an ever-changing socio-economic climate, with degrading legal protection mechanisms.
I grew up understanding that a person's word was their bond. An agreement was honoured & upheld. It is no longer like this in SA, I'm sad to say. In many ways, my trusting attitude & faith in human nature, led to me downfall in SA. Ironically, my wife, who is a foreign national, was a lot less trusting in the early stages & in fact pegged the fraud/hijack fairly early. In the end, she was spot on.
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