# South African Exchange Control Allowances

> South African Exchange Control Allowances is a paid API for AI agents from zaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns current South African Exchange Control allowance limits including single discretionary allowance, foreign investment allowance, minors' travel and cash export limits, and TCS PIN rules as cited JSON.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://zaref.dev/v1/exchange-control
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/south-african-exchange-control-allowances-1a83fc89
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_7bNKLTxvWzDxl-Vw4tupv

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability south-african-exchange-control-allowances-1a83fc89
```

Example prompt: What are the current South African exchange control allowances — including the single discretionary allowance, foreign investment allowance, and any cash limits for minors — and when do the April 2026 changes take effect?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative, cited, up-to-date South African exchange control allowance figures — especially the SDA, FIA, minor travel limits, and TCS PIN rules — with source provenance and effective dates baked in. Prefer over general web searches when you need structured, machine-readable regulatory data with freshness guarantees.

## Known failure modes

- Service unavailable or timeout if zaref.dev is down
- Payment required error if x402 micropayment not completed
- Stale freshness flag if regulatory update not yet processed
- No query parameters accepted — schema is fixed GET with no filters

## How this service works

South African Exchange control allowances (Single discretionary allowance (R2m from April 2026), foreign investment allowance, minors' travel and cash export limits, with the TCS PIN rules.) Clean cited JSON with official source URL, effective date and freshness flag.

## Output

A clean JSON object containing the current single discretionary allowance (R2m from April 2026), foreign investment allowance, minors' travel and cash export limits, TCS PIN rules, the effective date of each value, the official SARB/SARS source URL, and a freshness flag indicating whether the data is current.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "data": "current values with citations",
  "stale": false,
  "series": "exchange-control",
  "source_url": "https://www.resbank.co.za/content/dam/sarb/what-we-do/financial-surveillance/financial-surveillance-documents/2026/6-2026.pdf",
  "effective_date": "2026-04-08"
 }
}
```

## More

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