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(If anyone can help this couple please email to therealist@webmail.co.za)
My wife and I want to leave South Africa! I have a UK and SA passport (as I am British) and my wife is fully SA, and due to new laws can only get residence if I sponsor her (or an employer!), and she can get a UK passport when she lives in the UK for a couple of years.
I hope you can help, or refer me to someone who can - I am originally from the UK (Yorkshire) but fell in love with my wife, and SA, and emigrated here. Since then, life has been quite a struggle. I am 26, she is 27. We are simple, we just want to have a life. Somewhere to live and a child or two. But my wife cannot get work (there are just no jobs in Durban and she is white).
Although I am doing extremely well at work, there is no chance of promotion and again, few jobs. That, coupled with the sad fact that property is so mad that you need a CEO's salary to buy justa flat, and thus hugely increased rent, means that we are trapped in our miniscule 1br flat and can't even afford to move into a 2br, let alone get a house or flat! So our chances of having a family are also slim, when we can barely fit into a pokey flat, how do we raise a child! And when they go to school, look at the school fees, health care - all in addition to a rip-off economy riddled with cartels, monopolies and corruption. Being whites doesn't help us much either.
I am in timeshare, but I studied Marketing Management in Holland. I am very good with computers, speak English - Dutch/Flemish (I lived in Holland for 13 years) - Afrikaans - German and am a hard, dedicated worker with initiative. My wife has an N3 certificate and has experience with admin, running an office, reception, switchboard, but both of us are capable of much more.
If you can help us, or know of someone who can, please do! We'd gladly appreciate it. All we need to do is sell our furniture, our car, get tickets and go."
My wife and I want to leave South Africa! I have a UK and SA passport (as I am British) and my wife is fully SA, and due to new laws can only get residence if I sponsor her (or an employer!), and she can get a UK passport when she lives in the UK for a couple of years.
I hope you can help, or refer me to someone who can - I am originally from the UK (Yorkshire) but fell in love with my wife, and SA, and emigrated here. Since then, life has been quite a struggle. I am 26, she is 27. We are simple, we just want to have a life. Somewhere to live and a child or two. But my wife cannot get work (there are just no jobs in Durban and she is white).
Although I am doing extremely well at work, there is no chance of promotion and again, few jobs. That, coupled with the sad fact that property is so mad that you need a CEO's salary to buy justa flat, and thus hugely increased rent, means that we are trapped in our miniscule 1br flat and can't even afford to move into a 2br, let alone get a house or flat! So our chances of having a family are also slim, when we can barely fit into a pokey flat, how do we raise a child! And when they go to school, look at the school fees, health care - all in addition to a rip-off economy riddled with cartels, monopolies and corruption. Being whites doesn't help us much either.
I am in timeshare, but I studied Marketing Management in Holland. I am very good with computers, speak English - Dutch/Flemish (I lived in Holland for 13 years) - Afrikaans - German and am a hard, dedicated worker with initiative. My wife has an N3 certificate and has experience with admin, running an office, reception, switchboard, but both of us are capable of much more.
If you can help us, or know of someone who can, please do! We'd gladly appreciate it. All we need to do is sell our furniture, our car, get tickets and go."
