My new computer arrived - in Johannesburg, and I got a call from UPS ask me very politely to fax them a copy of my importer licence. Having no idea what one of these is, after several minutes of confused telephone chatter - I managed to determine what's required.
It seems that anything new imported into the country, over a certain value requires me (or whoever is doing the importing) to be registered as an importer.
Most of Thursday was then spent obtaining documents, affidavits, certified copies of identity documents, and substantial running around. The part where I handed over the application form (after filling it in three times,) to the people at SARS was actually very painless.
We now await with bated breath whilst the machine churns through its processes, and hopefully, within seven days, I will be an importer, and be able to get hold of my new machine - once I've paid the import duty on it.
The oddly placed sense of bliss once one has finished (successfully) dealing with red-tape and mindless bureaucracy....
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