I have to laugh at the SA press. Jumping on the Brexit doom and gloom bandwagon when clearly few, if any, have a grip on the matter (Brexit: How the UK (and SA) got punk'd). In just a few weeks we have a new prime minister, two months ahead of schedule, the pound has just rallied, the stock market is higher than before the referendum and the EU is in meltdown.Emergency meetings were held to try to save the Italian banks, the IMF declared that the EU was unsustainable without rapid change, Portugal and Spain are to be fined for financial mismanagement of sorts, France is economically stagnant and led by a dead man walking with little public support, Greece is a lost soul, Germany is facing a huge crisis; in short, it is the EU that is in confusion and financial shambles.The lower pound is advantageous at the moment (we are bracing for a tourist boom) and our exports are doing very nicely thank you. Incidentally, we export more to the rest of the world than to the EU and our exports t...
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