Despite outrage over its planned ‘expat tax’ amendments, the state says closing the personal income loophole is in line with international practice
The threat of severe food shortages in Ethiopia motivated Abebe Haregewoin and other expatriates into action, creating a Go Fund Me page.
Increased labour regulation by governments makes it is easier to fill executive jobs with local candidates, rather than expatriates.
The number of South Africans who registered to vote would probably yield half a parliamentary seat. But expats wasted no time casting their votes.
As voting stations opened in different parts of the world, the Independent Electoral Commission says the election process for expats is "going well".
The department of international relations and co-operation has dismissed a report that voters living abroad would not be able to vote.
Political parties are fighting for scraps when it comes to the votes of those living abroad.
South African citizens living overseas will be given their first-ever chance to register abroad to vote in the upcoming national elections.
How is it possible that South Africa is a better place now than in 1994, asks a disgruntled South African expatriate.
The DA is asking the Western Cape High Court to allow South Africans living abroad to vote for candidates in the provincial legislature.
They make up but a handful of the immigrant population to the US, but an impressive number of South Africans have risen to the top of their fields.
Reviving the party’s once powerful branch in the United Kingdom was never going to be easy. <b>Rob Boffard</b> reports from London.
Many professionals who left South Africa appear to be coming back home writes <b>Hamilton Wende</b>.
What’s my country? Well, that’s complicated. Welcome to the globalised future of unbelonging writes <b>Tanya Pampalone</b>
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/ 23 December 2009
Most emigrants are still whites motivated by fear, but life as an expat isn’t always easy, writes Ilham Rawoot.
There was no word yet from the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) on Thursday on how many South Africans had voted overseas.
South Africans across the globe showed up on Wednesday to vote, and for most making their mark in a foreign land was a momentous occasion.
Having won the greater part of what it went to court for, the DA is now proposing new legislation to clean up the whole business of the expat vote.
The DA predicted on Thursday that the court ruling allowing expatriates to vote would improve the party’s performance in the April 22 elections.
South Africa’s highest court ruled on Thursday that citizens living abroad should be allowed to vote in the country’s general election next month.
The Constitutional Court will decide on Thursday whether South Africans living abroad have the right to vote.
The high court’s ruling is a step in the right direction, but it comes too late.
The recent Pretoria High Court ruling on the right of expatriates to vote in the next elections is highly problematic.
Any delays in announcing election results ‘could fuel violence’, reports Qudsiya Karrim.
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/ 10 February 2009
It will be a ”logistical nightmare” for the IEC to prepare for elections if expats are allowed to vote, it was reported on Tuesday.
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/ 9 February 2009
South Africans abroad should be allowed to vote, the Pretoria High Court ruled on Monday.