Starting up a business is an interesting and exciting time, especially if you chose to do it in a new country. The International Mind Institute has been around for a while in the UK, offering training in NLP, Mind Power and hypnosis for a couple of years now, it is new to South Africa. Of course, with starting a new venture in South Africa comes a whole new set of issues, rules, and customs of the country…

While the business registration itself is quite easy and straightforward (if you find a good accountant that is), it does take about 2 weeks for the official paperwork to come through. This of course is highly dependent on the business registrations office, so it might take longer or shorter than that. Moving from Europe, we noticed that down here time runs a little differently. Overall, when the sun shines, things seem to move just a little slower

Phonelines however are a completely different issues. While in Europe you have several providers fighting over your business, South Africa has only Telkom offering their very monopolized services. This means that currently, all business is at the mercy of one provider. For the moment, it takes (at least) one month to get phone lines installed, and if this is a new business, you end up paying quite a hefty deposit (it seems you have to earn their trust first). So, for the moment, we are waiting for phonelines to be installed, and the main thing we are working on right now is the website and Brochures.

We will keep you posted on our development, and soon post more about our training services in South Africa….