When you travel or relocate abroad, you spend most of your time getting acquainted with the basic rules, facts and figures of the country you are visiting or moving to. It’s…
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Today marks our first Rainbow Friday shopping feature for South African emigrants living abroad. From now on you can look forward to a Friday blog featuring one shop selling South African…
If you’ve recently emigrated from South Africa, chances are you’re busy settling in, converting your South African retirement annuity to cash, paying debt, getting acquainted with your city and filing heaps…
While those of us in the southern hemisphere are praying for more rain and an end to the relentless drought and wildfires, our friends and family in the northern hemisphere…
Australia Day is a national public holiday in Australia, commemorating the founding on 26 January 1788 of the colony of New South Wales. Tomorrow individuals from across Australia will come…
Our view of the world is formed by our perceptions and our perceptions, in turn, are formed by our experiences. Consequently, we often hold a pretty warped view of the…
With former rapper Mos Def’s arrest for violating immigration laws in Cape Town last week, South Africans living abroad may be concerned with travel and passport requirements for visiting South Africa….
Most South African emigrants we deal with have made a choice to move after months of deliberation. More often than not, the choice is driven by desperation and hope for…
With the passing of musical legends Randall Wicomb, Lemmy Kilmister, Scott Weiland and David Bowie in the past few weeks, most of us are reflecting on the fleeting nature of…
One need only get an American and Brit in the same room to understand that there’s a bit of grammatical strife between the two. But these discrepancies aren’t uncommon. There…