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So the trick is to not sell any shares in ones portfolio until after 1/7/2015

You are permitted to take out R 10 million as a SA resident (that's the physical export of the funds into a foreign country/currency), but you have to get a tax clearance certificate which any local bank will insist on taking a copy of. Also you do not have to repatriate earnings dividends/profits to RSA, which is distinctly different if you go the route of getting your broker to handle the investment - this is always denominated in Rand and it is the broker who places the orders. There are other implications which I am still researching as if you do it through a local broker there are some tax conditions you need to meet. Also if you are a SA resident living overseas make sure you keep your tax number current otherwise you could end up being classified as a non resident and you will have to find a friendly country to take you in - also if you have a passport watch its expiry date as there seems to be a growing insistence that you call on the appropriate department in person to renew your passport and they seem to insist on proof of residency or at very least an affidavit. The simplest part seems to be opening a broker account in London (as I am currently looking into) but one needs to be aware of their tax regime and also what restriction are placed on (me) in terms of how long I need to hold shares for and which point I would have to pay CGT (still checking this out) and where the tax thresholds are and whether I have to apply for a tax number in London
So I would say that there is substantive homework to be done before just rushing off into holding funds in a foreign currency and trading on another bourse
Just my view - use them, lose them

I recall Choppies stores in Botswana, rural Spar/Shoprite like. Bought many succulent looking red meat cuts, tasted strangely sweet for beef though. KB

My apologies it is a Botswana company - and operates in Botswana and Zimbabwe and RSA
I hear donkey and horse are sweeter than beef - but haven't tried to test this myself, nor am I likely

Well I've tried about 5 times today to log in and it keeps telling me that my user name or password are incorrect - had this same cr%^ last time it ran, and then just withdrew from the competition

Well that's not so bad our market is now 51,623.30 (ALSI today) the last time it was at these levels was July 2, 2014 when the ALSI got to an all time high of 51,883.71 so our market is substantially down. It got to an all time high on 24/04/2015 of 55,298.92 so we have seen a substantial retracement

Can't see a reason - in late March they announced that Sanlam had increased its holding in TFG
Also results released are not too shabby given the current economic situation and dividend increased by 10.9%

New York and London both down after the holidays yesterday and probably Greece saying they will only pay back what they can afford to pay back on their loans