*****ed over FICA

<p>I have had the worst of experience using ABSA for my banking. I don't know if being a non-South African scholar studying in SA is the reason for being ill-treated almost every year. The worst thing is that ABSA decides to just freeze my account without any prior notice. Moreover, this time my account was frozen over documents that I had submitted about 3 times already. On enquiring the reason for the block on my account, I cannot even get a straight answer, neither from my local branch nor the FICAhelp desk. If the level of frustration that I am being subjected to were done to drug dealers and money launderers then South Africa might be financially crime-free but alas it's the honest customer that must be frustrated at every turn. I canot help but feel as though I am being victimised by ABSA for being a non-South African. This I say with knowledge of other non-South Africans that have also complained over the way that ABSA has treated them over the years.</p>