Message from the President
The message we want to send to people who have left the country to live and work abroad is that South Africa will always remain their home, and we will always welcome whatever contribution they can make to building this nation — from a speech by President Jacob Zuma to the South African Jewish Board [...]
View PostOverseas vote “bodes well” for GSA, says top official
Themba Maseko, CEO of the Government Communications and Information System and the goverment’s chief spokesman, has congratulated South Africans who voted overseas last week for “strengthening their bonds with their compatriots at home”.
“The enthusiasm evident in those who queued outside South Africa House (to vote in London)…bodes well for building a brain-bank of [...]
Voting for South Africa
By John Battersby
Twenty-five years ago, the crowds that gathered in Trafalgar Square to protest and demonstrate against apartheid South Africa played a major role in galvanising international opinion against apartheid and hastening its downfall. Yesterday, South Africans gathered in their thousands in orderly queues to have their say in the future of the democratic South [...]
Wanted: A Spanish-speaking South African…
…to talk amusingly about South Africa and the 2010 World Cup on Univision, the largest Spanish speaking network and the 5th largest network in the United States. The network holds the Spanish speaking rights to coverage of the World Cup and are currently preparing for coverage for the 2010 games in South Africa.
They seek [...]
Twittering
Global South Africans is now on Twitter, looking to follow and be followed by anyone interested in the project. You can find us here.
View PostSA in early 2009: an assessment
In an important address at Chatham House in London on January 23, Michael Spicer, CEO of Business Leadership South Africa, International Marketing Council trustee and former executive vice president of Anglo American plc, gave a candid of assessment of the state of play in South Africa on the eve of elections. Here is the [...]
View PostRuth Lewin Comes Aboard as US Manager
Please welcome Ruth Lewin who is taking over from Lee Gillespie-White as GSA’s US Manager. Ruth has had a rich and varied career in SA’s private, public and NGO sectors, most recently heading up CSI at Discovery, the SA health insurance company. She has also held posts with the Independent Communications Authority of SA, the [...]
View PostGSA Launches In India
Global South Africans was officially launched in Mumbai on August 26 at a dinner jointly hosted by IMC and First Rand. Thirty South Africans and ten Indians with strong links to South Africa attended the dinner at the Four Seasons hotel. The agenda also included a discussion on the establishment of a South African Business [...]
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