January 2003
A Happy New year to you all! Hope you had a blessed Christmas with your family and friends here and back home.
For those who had visitors
and are pooped, go to the beach with a bottle of wine, relax, think how
fortunate you are to have had your relatives for the festive season
and count your blessings that they are not living with you
permanently!
Welcome to all the new faces, remember you are not alone, if you need any assistance don't hesitate to contact us.
Congragulations
To Saleem and Shehnaaz with their lovely baby girl Saaima.
Kindergroepie
Die Christen kindergroepie begin weer komende Maandag
om 7uur. Alle kinders van
3jaar tot 18jaar is meer as welkom. Skakel vir Sandra Holloway by 666
8327 of 050 443 6339 of e-mail holweg@emirates.net.ae.
Piet Smith in Abu
Dhabi
Opportunity of a lifetime. Piet Smit in the UAE. Please note that Piet will be performing on Wednesday 15th Jan 8:00 PM in Abu Dhabi at the ECC Church. Entrance is free but there will be a freewill offering during the evening that will go towards the church building project in Dubai.
Best
Artist- as well as Best Gospel Album of the year
SCHEDULE:
11 January –
Dubai
Crown Plaza Emirates Auditorium, Tickets available
at the door, Dhs. 30 pp
Contact Nick on 0505 764 4020 or Basie 050 445
5269
15 January – Abu
Dhabi
At the ECC Church behind Al Khubairat School (British School) and behind the Immigration building in 19th street. 8:00 – 10:30 PM. Entrance is free but there will be a free will offering during the concert Contact: Hannelie Muller 445 4034 or 050 612 9643 for more information.
South Africa's top Comedian
"Barry Hilton"
Is
about to devastate the peace again.
Any
hopes of a quiet post-Xmas month in January will be destroyed once the
Cousin lands in Dubai.
For two nights only,
A
limited number of tickets are available to see Barry Hilton at Dubai's
number one nightclub 'Planetarium'.
Tickets
Dhs65,
Available from Planet Hollywood, all Virgin Megastores, the free-toll Visa Ticket Line – 04 800 4311 and www.ibuytickets.com Or telephone 04 3551862
Well 2003 is here, may I take this opportunity
to wish you all a very Happy New Year and may our good lord help us all
to achieve all those things that we desire and need.
What a world we live in, Inflation,
War, Political uncertainty, so many things that we need to look at before
we make decisions, sadly there are those people out there that take advantage
of our people for their own gain.
This is my 4th newsletter
regarding money matters, and would like to revise briefly what we have
gone through already.
I am going to do this in a form of a quiz. There are several
prizes, Like,
extra money in the bank, the extra house you are
trying to buy in Italy, Spain, Scotland,
and university for the children, the
BMW (Z8, or maybe 745) or
a little 500 Merc!! Dream on???
So here are the questions.
- What are the six steps to successful
investing
- What were the 6 tips for the
new folks offshore?
- When we talk about the process
of making money, what are the two most important things to remember?
q
To Buy ---- and Sell ---- ( not the other way around)
and
q
Beat ---------.
- How many different asset classes are there?
- What are the different asset Classes?
- Which Asset classes did we cover in the last newsletter?
“Answers in the next News letter”
I would like to end of this brief
note with two sad stories, both fellow South Africans.
End of last year and the beginning of this year, I was approached to help fellow countrywoman to sort out a financial problem they have had with financial Advisors, In both cases the clients were young nurses,and the advisor had put their money into what they were told was a bank account. They had saved to go home for Christmas. Unfortunately we discovered that their money had been invested into a 5 and 10-year plan. I am attempting to get their money back – no guarantees. Be careful guys - money is easy to lose, and damn hard to make. Just think of the sacrifices you are making, been away from your families etc to build your cash, don’t be silly by just going ahead without thinking and investing with anyone, do a bit more research.
Employment opportunity
Position: Co-ordinator / Tel – marketer
Profile:
§ Hard Worker
§ Assertive
§ Courage
§ Persistent
§ Goal oriented
§ Flex hours
§ Knows people
§ Would like to earn an income commensurate with effort employed
§ Organizational Skills
Personal Development:
§ Training provided
Remuneration:
Arrangements according to experience and proven ability
Persons with previous experience in Life Assurance, Marketing, Telesales, will be given preference.
Please fax CV to
Phil Graham,
02 – 6347271
Or E-mail: phil_ad@emirates.net.ae
UP FOR GRABS
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Full service history
Call Saleem on 050 676 0870
About the SA
Group
How
did the SA Group Abu Dhabi start? In 1999 the SA Embassy’s suggested
that a group be formed to look after the social needs of the SA community
in Abu Dhabi. We started out
with the first South African Braai to see if there was a need for a social
group. Information from
people attended the braai was gathered and added to the new “revived”
database together with information received from the Embassy and the Dubai
group. Very soon it became
apparent that there were far more SA’s in Abu Dhabi than what there was
initially thought to be. Armed with this information Sandra Holloway and
Anne- Mi Hendrikse started to send out a newsletter about social
events.
The Embassy arranged for a meeting for all SA’s at which a “steering committee” was appointed” They were Sandra Holloway, Hannelie Muller; Gavin Reed; Brian Ridley and Wayne Horwitz. The committee changed so fast due to transfers, end of contracts and work commitments that made it very difficult to have a committee with portfolios and the decision was made to have a steering group of volunteers. We had open meetings but only friends of the steering group attended for the open meetings. At this stage we cannot ask membership fees and there are nothing other than functions we can offer because we are not a registered “Social Group”, We had a meeting in May 2000 with the Dubai group for the proposal for a “Unified” SA group and the proposal was accepted and supported by the SAG Dubai. They were already busy with lawyers to register the Dubai group and the Abu Dhabi group were supposed to fall under their umbrella due to the luck of funds and all the failures to get a group in Abu Dhabi running previously. Unfortunately the Dubai group came to an end and nothing happened for two years. They are now slowly getting up and running again we will have to wait and see what happens in future.
The volunteers for the SA group at this stage are Jaco van der Merwe, Japie Uys, Riaan Smuts, and Pieter Roelofse. Jaco and Hannelie Muller. We are trying our best to run the SA group but we need YOUR help us to make this group a success. If you have an “party or fun ideas please inform us as we are more than willing to coordinate it.!!!!! Or if you have better ideas on how to run the group please let your recommendation be heard. We are planning an open meeting for the end of the month will keep you informed.
Heeeeeeeelp
needed!
1.
Somebody
with a creative mind to help with the
newsletter.
2.
Anybody
that is willing to help with web
designing
3. Contributions: Any articles for the newsletter, like ”What says the law”, hints, Doctors that are willing to contribute about vaccinations or allergies? Your favorite South-African recipe; that yummy Peppermint tart! Or the car you want to sell, you need somebody to take over your villa or apartment, let us know about it.
Cheers, till next month……………
