The reality may seem discouraging, but before tackling all the necessary steps to be able to work in Cape Town you must take into account the current economic realities of the country. Although it may long have given the image of an ‘Eldorado', things have changed considerably in recent years and the most recent statistics are not particularly encouraging: inflation is at 5%, with growth in decline (-3.5% forecast in the last quarter of 2019), the rand (South Africa's currency) has plummeted, and unemployment exceeds 28% of the working-age population.