Getting things done in South Africa
Plain, checked answers for the stuff nobody explains: offices, queues, paperwork, taxis and the braai. Every official fact links to the page we checked it against.
Getting around
Money and costs
Everyday life
- Getting through power cutsWhat to have ready for load-shedding or a local outage, how to keep the essentials running, and what to switch off.
- South African slang you'll hear in the first weekNow now, just now, robot, lekker, eish and the rest. What people mean, not what the words say.
- When the taps run dryStoring water before an outage, making it last, and what to do when your municipality says to boil water.