This is incorrect, non-competes in South Africa (I got advice on it once for a gig there) are enforcable is they are reasonable. For example, if the company pa

This is incorrect, non-competes in South Africa (I got advice on it once for a gig there) are enforcable is they are reasonable. For example, if the company pays you your old salary for a year after you leave, the non-compete with be enforceable. If they just part ways with no reasonable exchange of value for the non-compete period, all you have to claim is this is how you make your crust. Those folk have a serious legal consititution.