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  • South African Braai & Potjie Festival in Surrey, UK

    Where: Chobham Parish Fields, Surrey, GU24 8AQ When: 21 August, 2010 Time: 11am to 6pm email: braaiandpotjie@btconnect.com Cost: £5, children under 12 free Enjoy: Springboks vs All Blacks on big screen, braai cook off, potjie cook off, beer tent, picnic area, children's entertainment and lots of family fun. Funds raised will go to chosen charities and if you buy online tickets you will get a free prize draw entry to win a Paint Ball Day Out for ten people worth £300. Read More...
    Posted to Community by Community on 08-10-2010

  • Royal Mail announces posting dates for Christmas mail to South Africa

    Royal Mail has announced that the last recommended posting dates for Christmas airmail from the UK to South Africa will be Friday, December 4. Posting by this date will ensure that your Christmas greetings reach friends and family living in the most remote locations across the country. It is important that any gifts are wrapped carefully, with padding inside, strong paper outside, and sealed with parcel tape. People should address the package clearly and put a return address on the back. It is also...
    Posted to Community by Community on 11-27-2009

  • Expats say SA one of top 10 places to live

    South Africa is the 6th best place to live for people working overseas. According to the largest ever global survey of expats, the second annual Expat Experience survey commissioned by HSBC Bank International, South Africa was ranked as the country where expats found the biggest improvement in pursuing their hobbies and was also the top country for settling down. Expats in 30 industries in more than 50 countries were surveyed about their quality of life. Canada, Australia and Thailand were ranked...
    Posted to Community by Community on 11-27-2009

  • More expats looking at jobs back in SA

    The number of enquiries from South Africans living abroad about the availability of top jobs on home ground has increased. Positive feelings about South Africa and its seeming financial and political stability in the wake of the latest democratic elections, had – coupled with the global financial crisis – made the "green grass of home" seem "greener", says Debbie Goodman-Bhyat, MD of Jack Hammer Executive Headhunters. But Goodman-Bhyat warned that would-be returnees looking for...
    Posted to Community by Community on 11-12-2009

  • Win Springbok tickets and a signed Bok shirt

    South Africa's rugby team play the UK's Saracens on November 17 at Wembley. Thanks to USN, four lucky readers will be there… and one of them will be the proud owner of a signed South Africa team shirt. Our first prize is the rugby shirt plus a pair of tickets to the game. The runner-up in our USN competition will also win a pair of tickets. South Africans all know and love USN sports nutritional supplements but do you know what USN stands for? That's the question in our competition. You'll...
    Posted to Community by Community on 10-27-2009

  • Sasi launches networking organisation for SA professionals in the UK

    Sixty-five guests attended a cocktail event at Firehouse in South Kensington on Thursday, October 1. to mark the launch of sasi – a networking organisation predominantly, but not exclusively, for professional South Africans living in the UK. Through a range of events spanning sporting, cultural, gastro, music and family-orientated outings, as well as its trademark "sasi Thursdays", sasi aims to bring like-minded, compatible people together to have fun and enjoy the best of the UK. "Most...
    Posted to Community by Community on 10-26-2009

  • South Africa a hot spot for global investors

    South Africa has been identified as one of the key markets for global investors, moving up to 4th position, according to new research published by UK Trade & Investment Addressing the Economist Intelligence Unit's Emerging Markets, the UK Secretary of State, Lord Mandelson revealed the findings of a new report which examines global business attitudes to emerging markets in light of the global downturn. "Businesses should be strategic about their exports and plan for the long-term. Many...
    Posted to Community by Community on 10-19-2009

  • British actor supports YLSR projects in SA

    Emmy Award winning British actor Colin Salmon rubbed shoulders with the residents of Soweto as ambassador of international charity Youth Leadership and Social Responsibility (YLSR). IOL reports Salmon told community workers of his humble start in the UK and his rise to fame with the help of the late South African actor John Matshikiza. Later in his life he went on to act alongside Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect II and is currently filming the leading role in a new TV drama Strike Back being filmed...
    Posted to Community by Community on 10-14-2009

  • Win Prime Circle Tickets with SA Times

    Win 3 pairs of tickets to join SA Times when they present superb alternative South African rockers Prime Circle – All or Nothing - live at the Shepherds Bush Walkabout on Wednesday, October 28 and Thursday, October 29. Their UK concerts follow hot on the heals of their hugely successful tour of India and the platinum success of their third album All Or Nothing. Read More...
    Posted to Community by Community on 10-13-2009

  • UK arms deal probe could “embarrass” ANC government

    The skeleton in the South African government's arms deal closet could explode back into the public arena if the British Serious Fraud Office (SFO) sees its commitment through to prosecute Britain's biggest arms firm, BAE Systems. This warning came from Financial Times world news editor Alec Russell addressing a group of South African business people in London. Russell, who spent almost eight years in South Africa as foreign correspondent, was discussing his book Bring Me My Machine Gun: The...
    Posted to Community by Community on 10-09-2009

  • The traveller’s crime list

    We are all fairly accustomed to crime back home. But if you are planning to travel to Barcelona or Rome soon, be well advised that your chances of being the target of a pickpocket is higher there than anywhere else in the world. TripAdvisor travellers and editors have compiled a list of ten cities where pickpockets are most likely to strike. Visitors would do well to watch their bags in major European cities, where many popular outdoor attractions are tourist havens - and prime targets for purse...
    Posted to Community by Community on 10-08-2009

  • Time for Saffas to invest

    Let's face it - most Saffas aren't in the UK for the moody weather, the cramped underground or English football. Most of us will admit to having crossed the Atlantic, exchanged hemispheres and left Mom's bobotie behind, for none other than the Great British Pound. But the poor exchange rate (hovering at around R11 to £1) is not exactly helping our cause, and the nasty recession which has hit the Queen's mud patch, and the rest of the world – dubbed the worse since the dark days of...
    Posted to Community by Community on 10-05-2009

  • Tips for going home

    Going home? The fight on crime is getting tough back home and with most South Africans positive about the 2010 soccer circus, many expats are starting to consider a move back home. Here are some tips for those planning to return home by Martine Schaffer, managing director Homecoming Revolution, of the non-profit organisation aimed at encouraging South African expats to return to South Africa. Do: - Do your homework. Visit die Homecoming Revolution website . - Save enough money. It could take between...
    Posted to Community by Community on 10-01-2009

  • A Saffa with a planet named after him

    This is a story about a young South African who had a planet named after him. It has not been reported in the South African media, but it's worth the read. The rest of the story is written by Clem Sunter, the world-renowned scenario planner who wrote The High Road: Where we are now and Pretoria Will Provide and other myths as reported by South Africa – The Good News . "I was Chairperson of the Anglo American Open Scholarship Panel for many years. Because we offered not only basic university...
    Posted to Community by Community on 09-11-2009

  • Legislation to ensure overseas right to vote

    Legislation will be drawn up to ease processes for South Africans living overseas to vote. This follows and instruction by the Minister of Home Affairs, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, that her department's legal department draw up legislation which provides for guidelines according to which all South African citizens who live abroad, will be allowed to participate in South African elections. In a statement the party which initiated court action earlier this year to win South Africans partial right to...
    Posted to Community by Community on 09-01-2009
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