It's weird to me that their version of cashless doesn't work for foreigners. Every vendor in South Africa takes Mastercard or Visa, or a mobile payment system b

It's weird to me that their version of cashless doesn't work for foreigners. Every vendor in South Africa takes Mastercard or Visa, or a mobile payment system backed by a credit card. It's not strongly linked to a local bank account. Not a cashless society, but the transition would be pretty smooth for me. When I travel to Europe, UK, Australia I have the same experience (maybe not quite the same ease of mobile payment). The only reason I'm not cashless here is cash tipping, 99% to homeless people or very poor sales people on the side of the road. For weeks now I've been getting frustrated with myself for not having any cash in my wallet and having to disappoint people, although at the same time grateful for the ease of not dealing with cash.