As to the devalued Rand and restrictions on withdrawals from SA banks, it's my understanding that the wealthier landowners in SA like in Zimbabwe often kept their liquid assets in foreign banks in in hard foreign currencies for these reasons. That leaves those without such resources in a very bad bind.
Concerning western countries not taking these people as refugees, I said in another post that as far as the US is concerned, there's some hope that under the Trump administration they will be allowed in as legitimate refugees. Mike Pompeo has expressed concern over ANC land seizures, so with any luck he'll get to work on this and get a sympathetic ear from the President.
To get an exit visa, you have to buy what amounts to a lottery ticket for each person, which is NOT "cheap". Then they hold the drawing. If your "ticket" doesn't "win", you don't get one. A family can have one or more people "winning", whilst others don't. And if you don't "win", you are denied a visa; which means that a 5 year old child could win, but neither parent has; or any version of that scenario.
To make matters worse, to try to get a visa, you must BUY a chance each time...for each drawing, for each member of the family, hoping that ALL of you will win the next time; with very low odds of that happening! "Bribe"? LOL...not likely to work for the average person.
Oh they'll take your money, but lots of luck getting any "help" after the "bribe" has been pocketed!
Help from Pompeo/Trump? Maybe, but not any time soon, I bet. There are a whole L