Services for South Africans abroad
Find or list a South African business abroad, get a job, phone home for less, track down long-lost friends, sort out your immigration paperwork, send photos back home, swap holiday accommodation ... here's some specialist services for South Africans living abroad. Also check out:
- Buy SA goods abroad
- South African food, wine, groceries, crafts and other goodies. And you can send them home as gifts - in most cases, without moving from your keyboard.
- SA communities abroad
- The websites and clubs for South Africans abroad offer a range of networking and other services.
- The SA London community
- SA news, services, clubs, communities, business networks and entertainment in London.
Business listings,
networking
AfricaUK - Portal for African people and organisations in the UK. Offers free listings in a directory of African based businesses and services in the UK.
Reconnect Africa - Online careers, business and people management magazine for African professionals around the world. Offers information and services for employers and for graduates and professionals in Africa and the Diaspora seeking employment or investment opportunities in Africa.
SA Business Club - Business networking organisation of South Africans in the UK. For an annual membership fee, members get a company/individual listing in an online members' directory, access to a range of business and social networking functions, and more.
South African
America Business Club - Networking and business development forum for business professionals with South African connections living and working in the United States.
SA PROMO - Platform for South African businesses, whether based in SA or the UK, to promote their products and services to the South African market in the UK.
Slapchips.com - Business directory of South African expat-owned businesses abroad; jobs for South Africans abroad.
South African Business Chamber in Korea - Non-profit organisation that provides a business platform for South Africans in Korea, a networking point for South African and Korean business people, and (in association with South Africa's Department of Trade and Industry) access to a broad cross-section of business contacts and information.
South African Network of Skills Abroad (Sansa) - links skilled people living abroad who wish to make a contribution to South Africa's economic and social development and connects them with local experts and projects.
Emigration, employment
Breytenbachs - London-based law firm specialising in
work permits, immigration, property and general legal services for South
African and other Commonwealth citizens living and working in the UK. Web site also in Afrikaans. Associated with SA firm Breytenbach Prinsloo Incorporated, which provides legal services for visitors and immigrants to the UK.
SA Expat Zone - mostly emigration-related services.
Slapchips.com
- Business directory of South African expat-owned businesses abroad; jobs for South Africans abroad.
WORKgateways - helps organise engineering, town planning and construction jobs in the UK for travellers from South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.
Re-migration, employment
Careers in Africa - Bringing internationally based African graduates and professionals together with leading multinational and domestic companies and organisations in Africa.
Come Home Campaign - An initiative of trade union movement Solidarity and the Company for Immigration. Helps "remigrants" find work in SA, register children born abroad, get immigration documents for spouses, have overseas qualifications evaluated locally, and more.
Going Home Resource Guide - Detailed, informative, practical guide to relocating from north to south, published by the London-based South Africa Times.
Homecoming Revolution - First National Bank-sponsored initiative that encourages and assists South Africans living abroad to return home. Offers financial and lifestyle services, and advice on everything from opening a bank account from overseas to bringing a car/pets/money/non-South African partner into the country, tax on foreign funds, dual citizenship and more.
Finding old friends
Alumni - track down long-lost friends and family, school mates, varsity pals, army buddies and former work colleagues.
SAReunited - track down your long-lost school and varsity friends - both those at home and overseas.
SchoolFriends South Africa - get back in touch with your old friends in SA. Lists over 30 000 SA schools, universities and colleges.
South Africa People Search - Missing a close friend or relative in Cape Town, Johannesburg, or another city in South Africa, Namibia or Zimbabwe? Post a message here.
Phoning home for less
Call Through South Africa - phone SA from the UK for 10p per minute, any time of day or night, with no registration, pre-payment or credit cards: just dial the Call Through number.
HelloHowzit - offers low
rates on pre-paid calling cards, especially to South Africa, from Australia, Canada and the USA.
Yebo Africa - aims to provide the cheapest calls - 5.45p per minute - and best possible line quality from the UK to South Africa.
Other services
3windows.com - Upload your digital pictures or scanned photos onto the Internet - Durban-based company 3windows.com will print them out on "Kodak Royal" photographic paper and post them to family or friends in South Africa - postage free for South African addresses. Also an online photo framing and gift-wrapping service.
Ekaarte in Afrikaans - Afrikaanse e-kaarte vir Suid-Afrikaners in die buiteland.
HomeTimeSwap.Com - SA-based company
facilitates free holiday accommodation by home exchanging.
Image IT - SA-based company offering photographic, catalogue and archiving services for ex-South Africans worldwide.
Zuid-Afrika Huis Biblioteek - (also in English) waarskynlik die grootste Afrikaanstalige biblioteek buite Afrika.
Genealogy, family home pages
FamilyTree.co.za - South Africa's most comprehensive ancestral and genealogical service.
Gough Info - Genealogy, recipes from the Cape, jazz guitar lessons on improvisation, horse racing systems and methods for finding winners, and our Gough family living in England.
Lehmkuhl Family Home Page
- Information of interest to people researching South African ancestors/descendants, plus other SA-related projects.
Researching SA family histories online - Family history research has become far more accessible (and addictive) since the advent of the Internet. Sharon Marshall offers a primer of sites for South African amateur genies.
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