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Sending Money to South Africa

Transfer Procedures

Simplicity – we will take you through the process step by step.

New Clients

To begin an International Money Transfer (IMT) to Southern Africa:

Please fill in the client form attached, please ensure that you have the correct recipient bank details – please note that you may instruct us to send funds to a third party as long as they have a valid bank account.

Download our Client Form

You can also register online for your convenience.

Our address

Afritrans Ltd: PO Box 508, Sittingbourne, ME10 9AQ

Please contact us and we will send you a self addressed stamped envelope to return all forms.

  1. Please send the client form to Afritrans Ltd with the following:
    • a certified copy of your passport showing your passport number, personal details and photograph - this is only required for your first transaction - thereafter it will be on file with us.
    • a certified copy of your visa, residence or work permit.
    • certified/original proof of your current address (utility bill, letter from your landlord - PLEASE NOTE: A MOBILE PHONE BILL IS NOT ACCEPTABLE) – not older than 3 months.
    • certified/original copy of your bank statement – not older than 3 months.

    We are required to collect these documents by law and failure to provide these documents will result in a delay in registration or delay in your transfer until they are received by Afritrans Ltd. Please see the attached leaflet "Protecting Society against Crime and Terrorism"

    As a result of recent laws ratified by the UK Parliament and which came into effect on 15th December 2007, our company is now obliged to take and verify customer ID from any client who uses our services more than once. We emphasise that this law applies without exception to all Money Transfer companies based in the UK.

    We therefore require that, if you wish to utilise our services more than once, you must forward to us identifying documents that confirm your identity and also your home address.

    Please send us a copy of your passport or driving licence together with a utility bill, bank or credit card statement (sent to you within the last 3 months) in order to confirm your address. These can be scanned, digitally photographed or photocopied. You must also ask a responsible person (not related) to sign the documents with the following statement; ‘this is a true copy of the original document’. They need to sign it along with name, address and an official stamp (if they have one). This can be done by your boss, the bank, the post office, a minister, a nurse or a Doctor etc etc. You should then re-scan them (with signatures) and email them or post them to us at the given address.

    You have our complete assurance that the information contained in these documents will remain confidential in our files; the documents will not be disclosed to any third party, as laid out in the Data Protection Act, 1998, to which we subscribe.

  2. Once we have received your forms we will notify you by email of where to deposit your funds – you can then deposit funds in our account. You can deposit funds via the following methods: Online Transfer (please put your name as the reference for the transfer); Cash, Cheque. Please notify us how the transaction is done, alternatively fax/post us a copy of your deposit slip.
    • NB. Please note that cash will clear the same day, cheques and online transfers take from 3 – 5 working days to clear into our account.
    • Fees: GBP 8.00 per transaction. Please be advised that there are no other charges apart from the £8 transfer charge.
  3. Once your funds have cleared, we will process your transfer at the current market rate on the day your funds clear and notify you via e-mail of the relevant details of the transfer.

Regular Clients

Simply deposit funds and notify us and we will do the rest.

Direct Debits

Clients can also set up Direct Debits - please arrange this with your bank, each month when we receive the funds, we automatically process the transfer and then advise the client.

Referals

We will reduce you transfer charge by 50p for each client that you refer to us, they must state your name in the referral field on the form.

If you require any further information, or have any specific instructions regarding your transfer please do not hesitate to contact us.