Category Archives: emigration

Playing the RaceCard

By 6000 | 6000 | March 17, 2010

Thanks to Refresh Creative Media, the clever lot that brought you the brilliant Unfinished Business story about “finishing” Table Mountain, now you too can pretend to be Julius Malema (or any other inflammatory youth leader) by playing the RaceCard™. Ever been confronted and felt there is no way out? With no plausible explanation for your [...]

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Too much

By 6000 | 6000 | March 7, 2010

I do enjoy summer here in the Cape, but today was too much. My English enzymes can’t cope in these sorts of temperatures and have to be cooled and revived with a special mixture of Castle Milk Stout and Castle Milk Stout. The first four didn’t seem to get through, but after another four I fell into the [...]

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Gone fishin’

By 6000 | 6000 | February 13, 2010

That’s actually another big fat 6000 miles… lie. I haven’t. But I did see some blokes who had. We popped out to Gordons Bay – the current stamping ground of 6000 miles… regular Gordon (as in Bay) for child-induced chaos at the Spur, followed by an invigorating walk along the beach. The weather was peachy, [...]

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Getting six years older

By 6000 | 6000 | January 26, 2010

As we celebrated the sixth anniversary of my arrival upon these shores, we came to realise exactly how much we’d got through in those six years. Actually, when one takes into account what we’d done in the first five years, this last one has been pretty quiet. Four jobs, one engagement, one marriage, three new cars, one [...]

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The curious case of the ex-South Africans

By 6000 | 6000 | December 29, 2009

Here’s an interesting article from Ilham Rawoot in this week’s Mail and Guardian (one of very few that actually made it in – the Christmas issue was rather thin). Martine Schaffer, managing director of Homecoming Revolution, a non-profit organisation that encourages and aids the return of skilled expatriates estimates that two million South Africans live abroad – [...]

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