Sunday Times

Fast facts about aziza coins and Alumni Energy Investment­s

-

During the initial coin offering no more than 500 million aziza coins will be allocated to venture capital investors in Alumni Energy Investment­s and approved UK companies. So far R10-million has been raised for Alumni in South Africa. Any profits made on the cryptocurr­ency will be declared to the South African Revenue Service. Shakes Motsilili, founder of Alumni Energy Investment­s, says currently cryptocurr­encies are unregister­ed and if you make money on them it will sit in a wallet in a foreign currency. If you bring the currency back to South Africa, you will have to declare it. The minimum investment in Alumni Energy Investment­s is R10 000. There is an annual management fee of 2.5% as well as transactio­nal costs associated with the ethereum smart contract on which the aziza coin exists.

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from South Africa