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What is the best way to send money to South Africa?

It seems that I can not use PayPal and I am trying to find out if I can use Moneybookers, but my friend in South Africa says that I can't.

Any useful ideas of how to do it without it costing £30 every time through my bank?

Thanks for your help!
This is to send money to a longstanding frined and absolutelly no scam involved. Thank you for all your concern!

Public Comments

1. Can you use Western Union?

2. I hope that you are not getting frauded by some african 419 scam

3. in an envelope

4. I hope this is really a friend and not an Ebay scam. Western union?

5. I always use Western Union to Kenya so far without problem and if you go for next day rather than delivery in seconds it only costs £4.90 on £100 or £6.90 for £200.
That is via an agent you can only do the in seconds option on line which costs three times as much.

6. One way iv found quite useful, and not particularly hard at all, is buying the bottles of water that donate either money or water to Africa. for example, "one" bottled water is a not-for-profit organization that donates all its profits to Africa. Also there are companies like Volvic who donate 10 liters of water to Africa for every 1 liter of their water bought.