By now readers of fresh milk know that the lump sum of their Retirement Annuity Fund benefits can be paid out before age 55, by simple emigration from South Africa….
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Industry reports show that government is evaluating changes in South African legislation where pension funds will be compelled to invest in state owned entities such as Eskom, the SABC, SAA…
The brain drain started in the mid ’70’s when many of South Africa’s brightest university graduates left the country to gain international career experience, influential contacts and prominent positions. Now,…
The 2013’s Zest Festival theme: far from home – adventures, treks, exiles and migrations. The festival will cast its eye over the ocean to Cape Town, South Africa… The Australian…
The year? 1950. A Mr. Robertson, Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal was at his wits end with his old VW Beetle, which was notorious for stalling in wet weather. How to displace water…
Kenyan-born, Chris Froome was brought up in South Africa. Under a British license on the basis of his passport and father’s and grandparents’ country of birth, lives in the UK…
South Africans with an annual income from remuneration exceeding R120 000 p.a are compelled to file a tax return. People below age 65 pay tax on income of R60 000…
South African Revenue Services (SARS) allows you to file your February 2013 tax return as early as 1 July 2013. Herein hides a benefit for South African expats living abroad…
No truer words spoken than “two’s company, three’s a crowd”. When it comes to South Africans living and working abroad and trying to work out how and where they are…
Was the title and opening words of Bobby Bare’s 1963 hit. Fifty years later the same words echoed in Lizette and Pieter’s ears when they attended the SA Gemeente Dankfees…