Your client gets paid in crypto by an overseas customer. This week he asked whether the State can force him to sell it. For the first time, crypto is being pulled into South Africa's exchange-control net, with powers to compel a sale, restrict exports, and search without a warrant. CIBA has filed its response: yes to the goal, no to the design. Here is what the draft really does, what's overstated, and the opening it creates for accountants.

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