SAFFA EVENT: SA BAND GAGE TOURING UK

DATE: 23 July 2017 @ 18:00
24 July 2017 @ 21:00
VENUE: The Old Star, Queen Street-The Old Star, Uttoxeter, England, ST14 8HJ Uttoxe, UK

South African Band Touring the UK in summer of 2017.  Visit the club to enjoy live music and entertainment and have a good time with fellow South African Expats.


 

EAST KILBRAAI JULY 2017 – GLASGOW , UK

DATE: 8 July 2017
TIME: 12:00
VENUE: 3rd East Kilbride Scout Group, Carlyle Drive, East Kilbride, G74 3EW

We are pleased to announce that we have finally found a suitable venue for our July BIG BRAAI.

All fellow SAFFAS are more than welcome and bring your family and friends along.

You are free to bring along your home-made goodies to sell (bring a table if you need one)

There will be some picinic tables and a bouncy castle . SA items will be available to buy: Wors, biltong, droewors, sweeties, cooldrinks and biscuits, among others.

Overnight camping will also be available for quiet guests.

WE WILL PROVIDE:
* An open wood fire and grids
* Charcoal
* Plastic Utensils and paper plates
* 2 large salads (for those that didnt bring any)

(A donation bucket will do the rounds to help with the cost of these items)

PLEASE DO:
* Bring your meat, salads, rolls etc
* Cash to buy some SA Goodies that will be on sale
* Wear your Bokke, Proteas and Baf

Bring & Braai – South Africans In And Around The Oxfordshire Area, UK

Bring & Braai – South Africans In And Around The Oxfordshire Area, UK
Date and Time:  Friday, 01 July 2016
Location: Wallingford Bridge OX10 Wallingford, Oxfordshire

​Repeat Event #3
Venue: River Side Park and Pool on the Crowmarsh side of the river.
Bring and Braai South African style. (Bring your own Braai, your own coal, your Meat, your drinks, your salads).

***This is not a strickly South Africans only event. All friends and family welcome!***

If anyone doesn’t mind sharing your Braai like last year please do let us know as I’m sure some would appreciate sharing if they are coming alone.

Butcher in Wallingford, Goring, Didcot and Pangbourne all sell Boereworse.

I will apply for a permit this time as it is getting busier each year, any contribution towards this would be much appreciated.
Please can I also ask that every takes care to remember, others not part of the event are also using the space.


100,000 Whites flee anti-white South Africa as over ten times more Africans arrive from Africa, DESPITE “xenophobia”

An estimated total of 95,158 whites have left South Africa since 2011, according to a new Statistics SA report released on Thursday.

According to the 2015 mid-year population estimates, in the same period 1,067,937 Africans and 40,929 Asians migrated to South Africa.

The figures took into account total departures and total arrivals over the period.

Statistician-general Pali Lehohla, speaking at the release of the 2015 mid-year population estimates in Pretoria, suggested that while Stats SA had not done any migration studies, it could be assumed the estimates were influenced by employment opportunities.

“It can be assumed and working from theory, migrants tend to go where there is employment and looking at the age structure of Gauteng, you can conclude reasonably well it’s because of the supposed job opportunities that are there, that migrants are coming in,” he said.

Touching on white migration, Lehohla said there was a trend among white children,

Afrikaans comes to UK TV on Freeview via Arqiva & THEMA

JSTV and JSTV2, along with KykNET join UK’s Freeview HD line-up through IPTV.

THEMA, a CANAL+ group company specialising in foreign TV channel distribution providing content, legal, technical and marketing expertise, together with Arqiva is distributing four pay TV channels on to Freeview HD devices.

JSTV and JSTV2, the only Japanese channels available in Europe cover all genres from entertainment, movies and news, to sports and kids and address the Japanese community living in the UK.

kykNET and kykNET Musiek provide a wide range of Afrikaans Entertainment that includes talk shows, music programmes, local dramas, and cookery shows.

These two packages, available separately to all UK homes with a connected Freeview HD device on channels portal positions 246 for JSTV and 247 for kykNET bring to the Japanese and Afrikaans speaking viewers in the UK programmes from their home countries.

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