Comments on: About http://awesomesa.wordpress.com Motivating South Africans from passive spectators to passionate participants Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:18:17 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: nic tsangarakis http://awesomesa.wordpress.com/about/#comment-101 nic tsangarakis Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:58:31 +0000 #comment-101 Fabulous note. Thank you for writing it! Fabulous note. Thank you for writing it!

]]> By: maria gillis http://awesomesa.wordpress.com/about/#comment-75 maria gillis Sat, 31 Jan 2009 19:43:09 +0000 #comment-75 I am a South African living in the USA now 6 years. My husband is a USA Citizen. We are planning on returning back to SA. We want to ensure that when we get there we are able to train and share our extensive experience and empower the South African Community. My husband is a Auto Mechanic with the City of San Francisco for the last 27 years with extensive experience where he trouble shoots amongst other Hybrid buses. We know it provide distinct advantages. We need information on how we would go about it and who we can contact. We have a 16 year daughter with exceptional 4.15GPA. She is an honor student. Any information will help to get us back home and settled. Attached is my husband's resume. Thanks maria Gillis I am a South African living in the USA now 6 years. My husband is a USA Citizen. We are planning on returning back to SA. We want to ensure that when we get there we are able to train and share our extensive experience and empower the South African Community.

My husband is a Auto Mechanic with the City of San Francisco for the last 27 years with extensive experience where he trouble shoots amongst other Hybrid buses. We know it provide distinct advantages.

We need information on how we would go about it and who we can contact. We have a 16 year daughter with exceptional 4.15GPA. She is an honor student.

Any information will help to get us back home and settled. Attached is my husband’s resume.

Thanks

maria Gillis

]]> By: Peter Reinarz http://awesomesa.wordpress.com/about/#comment-63 Peter Reinarz Sun, 02 Nov 2008 10:10:09 +0000 #comment-63 I congratulate you for this movement, to encourage South Africans (those who have a choice...) to stay in the country and to keep on working for the better of the country! I am a Swiss national with primary residence in Zurich, Switzerland. After my first visit to SA in 2002 I and my famly fell in love and we eventually managed to acquire a holiday home in the Cape - a wonderful base from which to explore the whole of your fascinating, beautiful and diverse country and to get in touch with all sorts of people living in it. Naturally, everyone is concerned about the serious problems facing SA and virtually all people living there - but other countries have their own, and sometimes much worse problems, and only hard, committed, steady work of all sectors of society will eventually be able to overcome these issues. The challenge and responsibilty is in particular on the privileged (historically or not...) to lead and drive this process. My humble suggestion from someone sitting in the North: Take care of your democracy (this very weekend may be quite important in that resect), fill your Constitution with life and practice solidarity - in a to over come country like yours with such a huge social gap between the rich and the poor, that's even more important than elsewhere. Violence is nourished by the hopelessness of the underprivileged (and sometimes by greed of those who can never get enough). And finally, I would wish that SA contributed even more to overcome the terrible situation in Zimbabwe and suppported a real democratic process there, which deserves its name. The present régime offers absolutely no perspective. Viva SA! I congratulate you for this movement, to encourage South Africans (those who have a choice…) to stay in the country and to keep on working for the better of the country!

I am a Swiss national with primary residence in Zurich, Switzerland. After my first visit to SA in 2002 I and my famly fell in love and we eventually managed to acquire a holiday home in the Cape – a wonderful base from which to explore the whole of your fascinating, beautiful and diverse country and to get in touch with all sorts of people living in it. Naturally, everyone is concerned about the serious problems facing SA and virtually all people living there – but other countries have their own, and sometimes much worse problems, and only hard, committed, steady work of all sectors of society will eventually be able to overcome these issues. The challenge and responsibilty is in particular on the privileged (historically or not…) to lead and drive this process.

My humble suggestion from someone sitting in the North: Take care of your democracy (this very weekend may be quite important in that resect), fill your Constitution with life and practice solidarity – in a to over come country like yours with such a huge social gap between the rich and the poor, that’s even more important than elsewhere. Violence is nourished by the hopelessness of the underprivileged (and sometimes by greed of those who can never get enough).

And finally, I would wish that SA contributed even more to overcome the terrible situation in Zimbabwe and suppported a real democratic process there, which deserves its name. The present régime offers absolutely no perspective.

Viva SA!

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