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Welcome to the Your Stories section – where you can express yourself and share your stories of strife and triumph, fun and adventure. Anything. As long as it’s true. Everyone has a story. Tell us yours. (Got writer’s block? Check out some story ideas.)
You can find stories to read by using the right hand column OR simply scroll down to read the most recently added pieces.
Please note: Stories in this section are submitted by SA-People users – who come from a variety of backgrounds – and do not in any way reflect opinions of the site owners. We encourage freedom of expression – whether those are expressions we agree with or not!
June 18th, 2010
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 [Read More …]
Posted in World Cup Stories |
June 15th, 2010
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 [Read More …]
Posted in World Cup Stories |
June 15th, 2010
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 [Read More …]
Posted in World Cup Stories |
June 11th, 2010
Submitted by Callia, Johannesburg Last night was amazing. I was just as excited to be going into Soweto as I was for the concert. We hired 2 mini busses and got Soweto locals that my friend knew to drive us. That was really just for convenience sakes. I would have felt completely comfortable driving in [Read More …]
Posted in World Cup Stories |
May 25th, 2010
by Rodney Standing Well after a very long search I have found my ex-wife and my daughter – Susan, my ex-wife, is living in Estcourt and my daughter Susan (Susie) is in Durban. I have been in contact with my daughter now for nine months. I find it fate that two months after my second [Read More …]
Posted in Strife |
April 10th, 2010
Submitted by Patricia Meyer As such a fan of Juluka, I like that SA-People’s newsletters calls us Scatterlings! You have to know that I need African music played loud in my car as I drive around beautiful California here – just to help me live outside of South Africa. One way to remind me who [Read More …]
Posted in Your Stories |
April 10th, 2010
Submitted by Jules Cohn Hi ALL, We live 30 miles from Chicago. We immigrated to this part of the world 14 years ago. I lived in Jo’burg and my wife is from Norhtcliff. I grew up in Delmas and recently sent stories to SA Jewish Report on life there in 50′s, 60′ and 70′s. I [Read More …]
Posted in Life as an Expat |
April 10th, 2010
It’s been over thirty two years since leaving South Africa. I gave my word to Lorraine Buthelezi upon departure, I would return to help heal my Homeland from the ravages of hatred = Apartheid. Within the last week, I sent in my resume for a position – Team leader, whole of Africa Program based in [Read More …]
Posted in Coming Home |
March 5th, 2010
by Allan Duff SOON AFTER arriving in South Africa as an immigrant I was sent to the judicial capital, the city of Bloemfontein, for a week’s business. I drove there, the driving being easy as South Africa had fast, open and well surfaced roads. Some 40 kilometres on the approach to the city the road [Read More …]
Posted in Your Stories |
November 19th, 2009
Submitted by Astrolab When I was in the plane to reach South Africa, I was wondering what type of life I would find, what type of people and what type of future was there waiting for me and my girl friend. She was living there, she born there; I was born in Italy, Rome and [Read More …]
Posted in Strife |
November 19th, 2009
Submitted by norajean1933 Hi Everyone. My name is Alan Rivers and back in 1968 I was ask to join Rangers F C in Johannesburg. Their home ground was known as the Rand Stadium and I found it an excellent place to play football. In the early months of my time with Rangers I was invited [Read More …]
Posted in Against All Odds |
November 7th, 2009
Love Story of Andre and Vanessa Submitted by Bluechip It all started a few years back. I can still remember it was a Sunday afternoon when I was not able to sleep so I picked up my TV-plus to read. While paging through it I came to the “pen pal” section. At that time of [Read More …]
Posted in Romance |
October 24th, 2009
By Leigh Thorsen I’ve lived almost half my life outside of South Africa, and I’ve just changed country for the third time. Ten years in the UK, ten in the US, and now, with the California economy tanking on a scale not seen since the ’40s, it seems time to try…one more country. My husband [Read More …]
Posted in Life as an Expat |
October 23rd, 2009
By Fiona McIntosh “You’re going to cycle for five days through wild game reserves?” exclaimed my friends when I told them of the bush adventure that I’d just discovered. “Are you crazy? What about the elephants? And the lions? You’ve clearly got a death wish.” But I could think of nothing more exciting than getting [Read More …]
Posted in Adventure |
October 11th, 2009
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Posted in Dating Disasters |
October 6th, 2009
Submitted by Amanda Tsinonis, mother of three girls and one dog, living in London… At 9.30am today, I was back at my desk, ready for a days work. My calm, very “zen” colleague Harpreet walked in and we booted up our computers. I sighed- looking somewhat dishevled, “What a day!” to which she replied “Don’t [Read More …]
Posted in A Day, Week, or Weekend in Your Life |
