Outsourcing IT to South Africa

ooooh I don't know but I'm sure someone on here does.  Maybe think about minimum contract lengths they have to agree to, as long as you hit your SLAs. I guess you could add in that the person in SA cannot approach your clients, in the same way some employers do with employees, stopping them being able to run off with clients and set up on their own. I know a client of mine who took on people to help her out made them sign that they couldn't set up a similar business within 2 years of working with her. 

Even if you have a contract in place, would you have enough funds to take others in a different country to court, should anything go wrong?....  

That's a good point.

Especially in South Africa.The exchange rate is horrendous and is only going to get worse as land reforms go ahead and farm murders gets press coverage

I got offered £5 a blog by a South African company recently....I declined!

There's actually nothing wrong with the working force .My 1 Nephew does I.T over there for a company here and it works out quite well and they do work hard , sometimes well into the night or early starts.. Most South Africans are like that to be fair hard working and willing to do things others wont