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# Intelligence: Food & Beverage Import in South Africa

## Industry Context

- **Payment pressure:** Perishability creates urgency; Demurrage extremely costly for fresh goods

- **Operational control:** container tracking for demurrage avoidance; Fast EUR payments via SEPA

## Country Context

- **Use case:** Pay South African suppliers for mining equipment, commodities, wine, manufacturing

- **Settlement:** T+0 (2.3s avg within Unicorn network)

- **Banking:** **Branch Code + Account** (6-digit branch code plus account number)

- **Regulatory:** South African Reserve Bank (SARB) foreign exchange controls; Financial Intelligence Centre Act (FICA) compliance

## Key Industries in Country

- Mining

- Commodity Trading

- Wine & Agriculture

- Manufacturing

- Automotive