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SA PROMO Magazine Features
A MOTHER'S LOVE
Each Year in South Africa, the second Sunday in May brings with it a day in which children all over the country scuttle in a flurry to prepare their mothers a delicious breakfast in bed. They wake up early to pick fresh flowers from the garden, spend time ...
LET THE BRAAI SEASON BEGIN
TO BRAAI, OR NOT TO BRAAI. In every South African respect, the answer is quite simply; to braai. Many a meal has been spent around the coals of a top quality South African flame grill. It is one of those unique occasions that can be shared with anyone at ...
UNITED WE STAND Rugby
The build-up to the Rugby World Cup final was a phenomenal experience, just observing and taking in what was going on with South Africans worldwide was inspiring. The internet gives us all access to the world and by surfing around on YouTube, Facebook, Ne ...
SA FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATIONS
March rolls over and April blinks in the reality of 2009. South African’s start firing up the braai, cracking open a few castles and zone in for the pre-winter swims. Breathing out a relaxing sigh of relief and wrapped in the glory of the Super 14 Rugby, ...
SURVIVE THE CRUNCH
If I had £1 for every time I either heard the word ‘Credit Crunch’, then this so-called recession would be the furthest thing from my mind (cos I’ll be sipping pina coladas on my yacht somewhere in the Caribbean)
On average, economic recessions occur onc ...
MARCH FOR YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE
YOU may have received messages or emails urging you to register for a special vote. As you are aware the special vote is presently only available to certain categories of people such as South Africans who are temporarily out of the country: · on h ...
SA GENERAL ELECTIONS 2009
SOUTH AFRICAN GENERAL ELECTIONS 2009
SA POLITICAL PARTIES in the 2009 Elections
The five year cycle is on its end again, and South Africans are looking to the upcoming elections with a new found fervour. The biggest talking point on the local front will ...
ARE YOU DOING YOUR PART
You’ve just flown economy class from Johannesburg to Heathrow. Your new surroundings are so peculiar, but you’re excited. You descend an escalator and seconds later you feel a strange wind on your face as the Piccadilly train arrives. A quarter of an hour ...
SUMMER TRADITIONS Britain vs SA
Summer in Britain is a great time of year.
You can feel the festivity come alive in your blood as soon as the heat starts to creep past 30°C. Then, talk of concerts, picnics and ball games in the park starts to trickle from the lips of most friends and f ...
LEARN TO SPEAK SEFFRICAN
Learn to speak Seffrican!
Language.
Wikipedia defines language as ‘a system of visual, auditory or tactile symbols of communication and the rules used to manipulate them’. Let’s apply this to South Africa, where there are eleven official languages, inci ...
SOUTH AFRICAN Inventions and Innovations
South Africa throughout its bad and its good times has always produced top inventors, inventions, entrepreneurial geniuses, even an astronaut. It could be our unwillingness to give up, to face up in times of adversity. It could be some of the top schools ...
THE GREAT BILTONG Taste Test
Bil (‘rump’) tong (‘strip’ or ‘tongue’) - Dutch origin
Ah biltong...South African cultural icon and one of my best-tasting memories of old. There isn’t a South African alive who can’t recollect images of get-togethers, birthdays, and camping trips whe ...
IT WAS ACCEPTABLE at the Time
GROWING UP IN SOUTH AFRICA
I, like many of you, was born in the 80s in sunny South Africa. Though my memories of this period grow dim I still enjoy the odd recollection. Like climbing into the back of my mom’s white Toyota after school, and struggling to ...
ROCKTOBER Saffas who Rock our World
Expat South Africans live all over the world. They are found in the UK, Dubai, Australia, New Zealand, America, as well as South Korea, Japan and Malaysia. They engage in a multitude of professions, from lifting plaster board on London construction sites ...
MORE THAN JUST A GAME
More Than Just A Game: Football VS Apartheid is a book detailing the lives of political prisoners who were involved in playing soccer on Robben Island. They played completely by the book, followed FIFA guidelines and even gained an honourary induction int ...
ADRENALINE JUNKIES SA Takes on the World
Adrenalin is a hormone that causes all kinds of craziness in humankind. It’s a neurotransmitter that initiates the ‘fight or flight’ syndrome, and is closely associated with exciting or stressful situations. It’s a common occurrence in South Africans, esp ...
A GLOBAL CHRISTMAS DELIGHT
Christmas is truly a global celebration! Although the traditions and foods associated with it vary with climate, culture, country—even calendar—the spirit of the day transcends all such differences. From November onwards, it is impossible to forget that C ...
MISSION CHRISTMAS WHILE ABROAD
A friend from Amsterdam looks forward to spending time with a South African friend that’s coming over for Christmas, drinking lots of wine to stay warm, ice skating – seeing as this is her first cold Christmas – and just soaking up as much of the Dutch cu ...
NEW YEARS RESOLUTIONS
Every year as the sounds of Auld Lang Syne dies out in the midnight hour; the ensuing silence is almost immediately filled with the sound of resolutions being made, and almost without fail, ultimately shattered. From promising to quit smoking, paying of d ...
SAFFAS STAND PROUD IN 09
2008 was beyond doubt a tumultuous year for South Africa, from falling stocks and crashing markets, to the resignation of our President, Thabo Mbeki. The Xenophobic riots drew worldwide media attention, and once again our reputation as a forgiving nation ...
