Category Archives: emigration

How did I miss Richard Hawley?

By 6000 | 6000 | February 16, 2008

One of the most difficult things about emigrating is keeping up with things back home. Sure, you want to embrace the new lifestyle and the culture of your new home, but that doesn’t mean that you should completely lose touch with the land of your birth. And thus, when I find myself watching Sky News and finding [...]

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Why are you still here?

By 6000 | 6000 | February 1, 2008

No, dear readers. This isn’t a question for you.  We all know why you’re still here. It’s the almost ethereal, magical, magnetic attraction of the prose you read on these pages. It’s a completely understandable and excusable addiction. No, this was a question I was asked by the Molton Brown Boys over a particularly tasty curry at Bihari last [...]

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Yes, it’s different here

By 6000 | 6000 | December 27, 2007

“Proper Christmas” just doesn’t work in South Africa. I tried to point this fact out in the article I wrote for the December issue of Emigrate2 magazine. There are plenty of reasons for this, but here’s the biggie: it’s the middle of bloody summer. So: no chance of snow, it’s hot, it’s light, it’s bright and [...]

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The Big South African Crime Post

By 6000 | 6000 | July 6, 2007

This post won Runner-Up in the 2008 SA Blog Awards BEST POST category. Wow. What a week. We had the arbitration panel’s report on the Tevez affair, we had the new crime stats released in South Africa and I actually managed to play a game of football for the first time in almost three months, [...]

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How to win friends and influence people

By 6000 | 6000 | April 12, 2007

You may recall me mentioning my being interviewed by a journalist. That article has now been published (I made Page 7, just next to the advert for Harris’ Patented Haemorrhoid Preparation), although it’s sadly not available online anywhere just yet. One of the comments on my last post was from June who read the article [...]

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