Category Archives: emigration

A February admin post

By 6000 | 6000 | February 5, 2009

Look at the title: This is an admin post. No – I don’t like them either, but they are necessary evils to keep you informed and to remind me what I did and why I did it. Keep reading – you might learn something. Without wanting to give too much away (just in case the [...]

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Should Expats be able to vote?

By 6000 | 6000 | January 27, 2009

With an election imminent, as with any political party in any country, each of the political parties in SA is working out how best to maximise their chances of not losing too heavily to the ANC. Apart from the ANC, of course. Their tactic seems to be to not give a toss what happens because they’re [...]

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SA’s UK Drug Hell!

By 6000 | 6000 | January 21, 2009

Or should that be UK’s SA Drug Hell? SAA: powered by weed (allegedly) As fifteen flight and cabin crew from the daily SAA Jo’burg to Heathrow flight were arrested after 50kg of cannabis was found on board, South African rugby player Matt Stevens, now living and “working” in Bath, UK, failed a drugs test and looks [...]

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Learning the hard way

By 6000 | 6000 | December 13, 2008

“Ooh!” “Ha ha!” “ROOOOOOOOOAR!” It’s been a “fun” morning. You know – “fun”? Like going to a local shopping mall with hopelessly inadequate parking 12 days before christmas. “Fun”.  Yet, desperate to get into the festive spirit, despite the temperature outside being in excess of 30°C, we had headed out in search of a christmas [...]

7 Comments | Also posted in economic issues, flickr, learning curve, the parenting bunny, this is south africa

Missing “home”…

By 6000 | 6000 | August 11, 2008

If there is one thing I miss about living in the UK more than any other, it is the music. While SA has it’s fair share of decent bands and artists (and I’ve mentioned them more than once or twice on here), the music scene just doesn’t compare to the UK. I love to find [...]

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