Marinda’s Story: how voice-overs in London prompted a South African start-up


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Marinda Botha is a a professional voice over artist currently living in Centurion, South Africa. She studied Performing Arts in Pretoria and then swiftly jetted off to London, where she lived for eight years. She gained experience in the British voice-over field but also did some theatre performances, created a one-woman show and collaborated with [...]

TKAG Information and Appeal


Fracking stirs controversy in South Africa

Submitted by Karen Rademeyer, Treasure Karoo Action Group Dear South Africans This letter is important to you, your family and the South Africans that you know – please read it and forward it to people that you know. Should I care whether or not South Africa is fracked? This précis is aimed at people who [...]

Only in the Cape……


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From an email doing the rounds… A FUNNY SOUTH AFRICAN STORY  …. On Sunday I popped down to the local convenience store at the Engen service station to return some DVDs and pick up a few things.  On the way I passed a scrap metal cart being pulled by a donkey.  Whenever I see this [...]

Back to SA after Asian adventure


Back to SA after Asian adventure

About eight years ago, a South African couple left their home comforts to set out on a journey of a lifetime that would be the envy of many spirited adventurers. Now they are making their way back home, and they have many stories to tell. Iain Manley and Claire van den Heever have written an absorbing travelogue [...]

SAReunited Farewell Messages


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The response to the closure of SAReunited’s social networking section has been incredible, and we are now doing our utmost to reintroduce some of those features – more announcements within the next few weeks. But for now – here are just some of the many emails you so kindly sent to us. To keep updated [...]

A letter from Italy…


by Fabio Di Caro, matriculated at KES in Houghton in 1980 Just wanting to let you know that things have not turned the positive way for a lot of us in europe, I am one of them, to be precise I did not choose to come to this Italy, which I deeply hate for all the possible reasons,I [...]

My Story: Tracey’s International TV Debut


Tracey dreams of Hollywood

Submitted by Tracey C Smith I am a simple South African girl who has dreamed of Hollywood all my life. When I moved to Johannesburg, I joined a casting agency and received many opportunities to audition for mostly television advertisements and then the call came to say that I had been chosen to play the [...]

South Africans are feeling goooooood!


The patriotism has been overflowing in South Africa. Despite South Africa’s hopes of winning the World Cup rapidly dwindling, spirits are still high. Here are some of the comments we’ve received on Facebook in the past week: Went for a walk on Durban Beach at ten this morning and came home at 5.30 pm! The [...]

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Greek World Cup game

Submitted by Jimmy, from George in Port Elizabeth Hi everyone, Over the past weekend 12 of us from the Greek community of George drove through to P.E. to watch a soccer match between Greece and Korea. Other than the fact that we were beaten and that Greece played a terrible game, it was an experience [...]

2010 World Cup, New York Style


by Philippa Garson, New York There is no discernible “little South Africa” in New York, the melting pot of the world, but on Friday 11 June the country claimed its piece of the pot when pockets of South Africans exploded with jubilant national pride onto the surprised streets. Madiba Restaurant, a South African eatery and [...]

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