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Building a collection of valuable assets takes time. A gold holding may have been accumulated over many years. A collection of Krugerrands may represent a long-term approach to preserving wealth. An artwork may have been carefully selected, inherited or acquired as part of a growing collection. Whatever form these assets take, acquiring them is only part of the responsibility. The next consideration is where and how they are protected. As the value or size of a collection grows, keeping valuable assets at home may no longer be the most appropriate solution. Professional custody provides an alternative solution. It is a secure, controlled environment designed specifically for assets that require a higher level of protection. At KNOX Safe Custody, this principle

Heritage is often spoken about as something inherited from the past: our history, traditions, family stories and the possessions passed from one generation to another. Heritage Month gives South Africans an opportunity to recognise those connections. But heritage is not only what we inherit. It is also what we choose to preserve. A gold coin purchased today may form part of a family’s wealth decades from now. A grandmother’s ring may pass from mother to daughter. An artwork can outlive its original owner. A collection built over a lifetime can become part of an estate. A handwritten letter may eventually become one of the few physical connections a family has to someone who came before them. Some of these possessions

Every South African resident over 18 has an annual allowance they can move offshore without asking anyone’s permission. Most people know it as a way to fund a holiday, top up an offshore savings account, or send money to family abroad. Fewer stop to ask a different question: could that same allowance be used to hold something more tangible, such as physical gold and silver, held internationally, in your own name? It’s worth asking. Especially now. A bigger allowance than most people realize As of April 2026, National Treasury doubled the Single Discretionary Allowance from R1 million to R2 million per adult, per calendar year, with no SARS tax clearance required. Beyond that, the Foreign Investment Allowance allows a further

For most South African firearm owners, the focus when it comes to safe storage tends to fall on one thing: the firearm itself. We invest in proper safes, secure mounting, biometric locks and tamper-resistant cabinets to keep our rifles, shotguns and handguns out of the wrong hands. But there is a second category of items that, in our experience, gets nowhere near the same attention, and the consequences of that oversight can be far more painful than most owners realize. We are talking about your firearm documents. Under the Firearms Control Act 60 of 2000, your right to lawfully possess a firearm in South Africa does not rest on the firearm itself. It rests on the paperwork that proves your