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A GUIDE TO MOVING BACK TO SA
Send money back home if you already have an account.
Start saving money to help you through the first few months, whilst you’re looking for work, outfitting a household,buying a car and also to cover moving expenses.
Make sure you have all your papers in order. Do you have your SA passport, does your kids have passports, hasyour foreign spouse got a visa, is your SA citizenship in order, is your passport ...
FLATMATES and FRIENDSHIP
If you will soon be in a flatshare or house share, decide before you move in just how friendly you would like to be and have an honest discussion about becoming a friend to your new flatmate. However, don’t feel that you need to decide right away if you want to become best friends, or not friends, with someone. As long as you both can remain polite and respectful then friendship can run its natural course. ...
NUWEJAARS VOORNEMENS
Vergeet van die ou holrug geryde onderwerp oor wat die gewildste Nuwejaarsvoorneme is of wat bekende mense gaan doen. Ons het gevoel dis dalk tyd om ‘n ander spin op die hele onderwerp te sit. So kom ons kyk eers, wat sal jy doen as jy dit wragtig regkry om by jou nuwejaarsvoornemens te bly, en hoe sal die wêreld dan daar uit sien?Van die gewildste voornemens is om skuld af te betaal, meer geld te spaar, ge ...
BIG CITY BIG SMOKE …and I’m living on lonely street
And in the naked light I sawTen thousand people, maybe more.People talking without speaking,People hearing without listening,People writing songs that voices never shareAnd no one dareDisturb the sound of silence.Paul Simon & Art Garfunkel - The Sound Of Silence
8 million people living separate lives, making 8 million journeys each day. 8 million voices go unheard while 8 million lives face dissimil ...
TICKET TO RIDE London tubes
I haven’t yet met a South African who says they were not fascinated by the notion of catching the tube when they first arrived in London. Its all pretty novel in the beginning though, let’s be honest! You can arrive early or late and there’s almost always one ready to go to pretty much anywhere in half an hour. This all happens with very little effort on your part; the doors open by themselves, a voice blea ...
HELLO is it me you looking for? - call centres
HELLO is it me you looking for? South Africans take London call centres by storm! Since my arrival in the UK, I have observed a growing trend for South Africans to find work in Call Centres. Despite the low wages, and haphazard working hours, we still flock in the hundreds to these seemingly stress-free jobs. When South Africans first started working in the UK, many moons ago, they opted mainly for bar wor ...
HOUSE SHARE Dealing with guests
HOUSE SHARE Dealing with guestsLiving with a flatmate can be hard enough, but adding guests to the mix can make it downright frustrating. Dealing with an extra person in your home, extra possessions strewn about and disruptions to the normal schedule can all make a guest’s presence less heavenly and more hellish. To avoid disagreements over guests, make up some house rules regarding the three most common ty ...
Paintball - Clint
What made you get into the paintballing game for a living? The sport itself is very exciting and fun, and to be able to forge a career in marketing such a unique product is not difficult when there are so many fans of paintball in the world.
Do you consider paintballing to be an extreme sport? I consider paintball an adventure sport and it is for anyone of any age to enjoy with friends and family. Everyone ...
KERSVADER
Vir een ding, in Suid Afrika is daar nie sneeu nie. Veral nie die tyd van die jaar nie. Meeste huise het ook nie skoorstene nie, en soveel diefwering en alarms dat niemand sommer kan inkom wat nie binne hoort nie. Maar dit is alles klein probleempies vir Kersvader as hy sy jaarlikse uitstappie maak en in Suid Afrika aankom. Die slim ouens het gaan sit en so paar somme gemaak. En die resultate is verstommend ...
COPING with Lifes Knocks
You can't turn on the TV or read a newspaper at the moment without hearing about job cuts, the credit crunch and businesses closing. In times of challenge it is easy to withdraw into our own thoughts, forget those around us and focus on our own problems.But there are countless stories of people who have used it as an opportunity to follow their dreams. What can you do to help you through this time?Fill yo ...
SHOOT THE DRESS Choosing a wedding Photographer
Born and bred in sunny Durban, South Africa we made the move over to the UK over eight years ago now. Working as a husband and wife team we cover weddings from all angles. Both the bride and groom preparations are covered and the ceremony and reception are seen from two perspectives. Having recently tied the knot ourselves in 2007 we understand the preparation, anticipation and emotion that is involved in c ...
HOMEWARD BOUND
In 1994, I waved goodbye through the Johannesburg airport glass. My cousins and my grandfather were standing behind it. I kept turning back to get one last look at them before we boarded the plane. I just didn’t want to go. The airline staff called our names to board. We ran down the corridor, an assortment of bags hanging off our arms, my sister and I apologizing numerous times as we accidentally hit other ...
WHERE TO FROM HERE?
Following the recent changes in the visa requirements for South Africans travelling abroad, and deplorable eradication of the Two-year working holiday visa to The United Kingdom, many young South Africans are wondering where to go next. In previous years, hundreds of thousands of South Africans have had the opportunity to explore the world and work in the UK, a trend that become synonymous with many a gradu ...
Music promo - Living it Live
Who are Living it Live and what is your cool job?Musos. Drums. Guitars. Bass. Groupies. …aah and a well deserved beer at the end of it! Living It Live is a Music Management company based in London and we provide one of the biggest platforms for South African musicians coming to the UK to play to their home crowd as well as providing a leg-up into the UK music industry. We are an uber passionate bunch of l ...
Bus driver - Peter Rishton
Everyday, thousands of people make use of the big red busses for which London is famous. But hardly any attention is ever paid to the driver of the bus, so SA Promo has seen it fit to interview ex Saffa teacher, Peter Rishton, who has taken up this job to make the wheels of the bus go round and round.
How did you come to the decision to become a bus driver and what did you do before this?
I worked as a te ...
PUT THE SPARK BACK
It’s that time of year again when relationships are in the spotlight and the pressure is on to produce a spectacular Valentines Day. But for many, their relationship has become stuck in a rut. This can be for any number of reasons. Especially when you get too busy with day-to-day life, like whose turn it is to take out the rubbish. You and your partner forget the little things, like
kisses and small th ...
KEEP IT COVERED
Job hunting? Make sure your CV does the job by attaching a winning cover letter. If you want to make sure that your CV hits the mark, attach a cover letter that will make your application stand out. Recruiters are busy people who have to sift through piles of CVs, so anything that makes their job easier will win you points.My first piece of advice is to throw away your ‘standard’ cover letter. It may take ...
HOMECOMING REVOLUTION London 2008
Kensington Conference Centre, Olympia on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th October 2008.Your country needs your skills:• Come find out about the exciting career opportunities with leading South African companies• The skills needed include engineering, healthcare, financial, legal, project management, retail buyers and planners, construction management, chartered accountants, artisans, information technology, mini ...
COMING HOME
In January 2003 I was made redundant from my job in London. It came as a complete shock – I hadn’t realized how much the ripple effects of 9/11 would eventually catch up with me. I started job hunting, but in a depressed market there wasn’t much I found exciting.A few months later, I decided to return to South Africa to see what options were available. It took me six weeks to pack up. I arrived back on my h ...
COME ON SUMMER
Remember that old TV advert for the cricket? Come on summer, come on! This used to be our cue that summer is coming and that means that it was time for a braai! For us Londoners in the absence of this signal we are left to our instincts to judge when this time comes and in recent times we can't really rely on the weather to tell us when summer is supposed to be here. Old man weather plays his cards very clo ...
