I live in South Africa and I want to buy shares in one of the NYSE listed companies, where do I start?

lacoste: I live in South Africa and I want to buy shares in one of the NYSE listed companies, where do I start?
And how do I go about doing that? I currently buy and sell shares online using online stockbrokers.

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Answer by Bob
So just buy the shares. Any major stock broker has international offices or affiliates who can fill foreign orders. If yours doesn’t, change brokers. Some software might require that you put “.N” after the symbol. Your broker might have additional disclosure paperwork for you to sign before you can do this in your account. Call them.