IMPORTANT NOTICE!
WELCOME, You are in the old website section up to 2011, please click HOME to view the website in the new 2012 design and system. THANK YOU!
Working Abroad
- Cool Jobs (11)
- Property (7)
- Recruitment (0)
- Visas and Immigration (6)
JOU SENTE JOU DROME JOU TOEKOMS vol gate
Ek’s ‘n groot aanhanger van The Secret Millionaire. Hierin besoek suksesvolle entrepreneurs ‘n minder gegoede buurt en gee voor asof hulle ‘n dokumentêr oor liefdadigheidswerk verfilm. ‘n Week later bieg hulle dat hulle eintlik rol in die geld, en dan deel hulle vet tjeks uit vir mense wat hulle beïndruk het. Hier begin almal gewoonlik grens: die miljoenêr, die oorblufte ontvanger van sy barmhartigheid, en ...
ASK THE DOCTOR Skin Cancer
I grew up in South Africa, is the sun dangerous in Europe and the UK? The UK has the highest incidences of skin cancer in Europe because many people do not believe the sun can do damage and parents do not protect their children against harmful UV rays from early childhood. Whilst sunshine is good for us as an important source of Vitamin D, overexposure to the sun can lead to sunburn and skin cancer.What is ...
BUNNY CHOW Recipe
INGREDIENTS 1½kg mutton or lamb cut into pieces 4 tbs oil 4 x 2.5cm pieces cinnamon 6 green cardamoms 6 cloves 1 bay leaf 2 tsp fennel seeds 4 sprigs curry leaves 2 green chillies, slivered 1 large onion, chopped ½ tsp turmeric 1 tbs crushed ginger 1 tbs crushed garlic 1 tbs brown vinegar 2 tsp sugar 2 tsp gram masala 4 level tbs medium hot mixed masala 5 cups water ½ cup tomato purée 1 tomato, chopped 6 ev ...
CORPORATE SOCIAL INVESTMENT
Corporate Social Investment – Investment or bottomless pit?Fish or nets, seed or food? Corporate Social Investment (CSI) raises many questions and some eyebrows.The keyword has to be sustainability. Pumping funds into a project that will always be reliant on outside funding defeats the genuine idealism that supports it.Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) compliance by companies demands investment in local and ...
ENTREPRENEURSHIP The Way Forward in SA
The recent Homecoming Revolution event hosted excellent speakers who talked about the many real opportunities in our home land. The day covered gaps in the market for those entrepreneurs who were still looking for ideas, and the challenges that could be faced by those returning.Entrepreneurship in SAIt was acknowledged that being an entrepreneur can be challenging and perseverance, as well as being prepare ...
RAINBOWS AND REVELRY
Spring fashion pops with bright colours, sheer textures and feminine silhouettes. Rainbow bright shades of sunny yellow, warm coral, vermillion orange, verdant green, hibiscus red, hot pink, pungent purple and sapphire blue make their way from the runways into our closets, as we witness a flashback to the 80s!With winter finally behind us and the sun filtering its way back into our lives, it time to put the ...
THE ROLE OF ART IN OUR LIVES
A diverse society composed of various races with a wide disparity of incomes forms the backdrop for life in South Africa today. Tribal peoples abiding by ancestral rules are moving from rural areas to integrate with urban communities of different beliefs. The black urban community in turn works closely with the white community which itself is splintered into peoples from various backgrounds with distinct he ...
COOL JOBS Illustrator
Illustrator - Steven Moseley
What is your art background?Apart from spending most of my youth copying the work of the master that is ‘Jim Lee’, I have no real background in art or design. My high school art teacher in matric told me I was useless and for a long time I stopped drawing. It was after too many nightshifts working security in London with nothing else to do but doodle that I got back into it. I ...
ZUMA EN DIE HEUNINGKWAS
Jocob Zuma het glo nou die dag gesê dat, van alle wit groepe in Suid-Afrika, Afrikaners die enigste “ware Suid-Afrikaners” is, omdat hulle nie twee paspoorte het nie en gevolglik nie sal (of kan!) weghol as daar probleme is nie.Wie kan hoegenaamd teen sulke vleitaal immuun wees? Die ganse Afrikanerdom het sommer ‘n nuwe blos op die wange. Ons koppe draai behoorlik van die manjifieke moontlikhede wat so ‘n v ...
ASK THE DOCTOR Blood Pressure
What is blood pressure and how is it measured?Blood pressure is the force of blood against the walls of blood vessels Р the veins and arteries in our body. Blood pressure is vital in circulating blood throughout the body. When your heart beats, it pumps blood round your body to give it the energy and oxygen it needs. As the blood moves it pushes against the sides of the blood vessels. The strength of this p ...
BRING ON SUMMER
The sights and sounds of summer are well and truly on their way. Long afternoons lazing in the park with friends, tank tops, shorts, and flirty dresses – don’t panic! Candice Turner offers some easy-to-adapt techniques to blast off those unwanted winter pounds and sail through the upcoming season fit and healthy.Run Forrest Run!It’s free, you can do it anywhere and it’s a great way to get fit! According to ...
IS IT TO EARLY FOR A BRITISH SUMMER
Summer is without a doubt the most anticipated and talked about event in the British calendar. If the Poms spent half the time preparing for summer, and focus the other half on their football, then maybe they’d be able to win another World Cup...and so relive the glory days of 1966 (that was a cheapshot, I know).So why the big hoohah? Because the British summer, is just so flippen short.The big talking poin ...
BUTCHER AND GRILL Restaurant Review
Wimbledon Village, 33 High Street, London, SW19 5BYT: 020 8944 8269 In the heart of Wimbledon Village, there is a little butchery where you can go to buy that perfect fresh-cut T-bone and all manner of meats as you’d expect! But, upon entering you will soon realise you are in the unique combination of both a modern butcher shop and an informal restaurant with a bar. (And there is also a branch in Battersea! ...
MAKING DECISIONS EASIER
Are you one of the many South Africans who face tough decisions about your future?Like everyone we face decisions such as which job to take or whether to stay in a relationship. But as South Africans we also face other decisions like do I go home or how do I make a living if I
go home.Why is it important to make a decision? Making a decision gives you direction. By not deciding you become paralysed. You ...
MAYS BROWN Q&A April 09
QUESTION: We run our business from premises we own under a Lease. Our Landlord has requested us to carry out certain works to the property and has threatened to forfeit our Lease if we fail to carry out these works. We pay the rent, why is this not the Landlord’s responsibility? What happens if we do not carry out the works?ANSWER: It appears that Landlord has served you with a Schedule of Dilapidations. ...
COOL JOBS T-shirt design
T-Shirt designerTalitha Rabie
How did you get into T-Shirt design? Is it something you have always wanted to do? I did it for fun and entered some Springleap competitions and then I started getting a lot of positive feedback about my t-shirts so I decided to start selling and promoting them. Illustration and drawing is something I have always enjoyed doing so this has recently branched out into T-shirt de ...
FINDING A JOB IN RECESSION HIT BRITAIN
There is no doubt that everybody in London and indeed the UK are currently being affected in some way, by the credit crunch. Top of this list is JOBS. It is not only the city boys anymore that are being affected by this economic depression, it has filtered down in to all aspects of the job market. The current unemployment tally in the UK has just reached 2 million and doesn’t look like stopping any time soo ...
POSITIVELY SOUTH AFRICAN
With the elections this month let’s focus on what is good about South Africa.When you think about home what comes to mind? When you talk to your friends, of all nationalities, about South Africa what do you say? Do you talk about the crime, the latest horror story from home or the apparent lack of jobs? Or do you talk about the wonderful upbringing it gave you, the education you received, which has enabled ...
SAVING OUR PLANET
Could you ever imagine a world where elephants are no longer roaming on the Africa savannah, where orangutans are only found in captivity or where a polar bear running along ice caps can only be seen in
film archives?Such a world is more likely than you might think!95% of the Great Barrier Reef corals gone by 2050, 75% of Antarctic’s Adelie penguins could disappear by 2050, polar bears wiped out entirely b ...
ENTRY VISAS Q&A April 09
Question: I am a South African who is 23 years old. I would like to apply for a student visa later in the year, but I heard rumors that the student visa rules will change, is this true?Answer: Yes, the rules for applying for a student visa will change on the 31ste of March 2009. From 31 March 2009, all students must apply either as an adult student or a child student (under tier 4 of the points-based system ...
