Moving to Cape town from the US

[bretongreen]

Hello
I will be moving my family to Capetown from the US and will love advice on where we can live that is very secured and schools the children can go to, they are 13,11, and 7 years of Age.My wife and I are both Medical Doctors.
Thanks
Breton

[Daxk]

Hi Bretongreen, will you be practicing as Doctors?
I understand that there is a certification Exam to be written and the possibility of Community Service where the SA Medical Council will decide where you are likely to be the most useful before you can practice as any sort of Medical Professional.
That may well be a Hospital or Clinic out of Cape Town.

[Juliet]

Breton,

Do you know where you will be working.? My family and I just moved here a little over a month ago from the U.S...We chose to live in one of the smaller communities that is not so busy, Hout Bay.
We live in a gated secure community and our children go to a British International School, which they LOVE(the girls are 13). However if you are interested in an American school there is one in Constantia/Claremont area which is also a lovely area.

-Juliet

[Daxk]

Breton,
You need to check things out very carefully.
American Medical Degrees are NOT all recognised by the SA Medical Council.
If you are fortunate enough to have Valid Qualifications,you will still have to write an Exam,apart from Competency,it will also include SA Medica Law and After That,you will have to provide Community Service in a Government Facility that they decide the location of(which could be Johannesburg or anywhere else in SA) for one year at Government rates Of Pay Scale.
The relevant sections from the Act and The Health Councils websites are here.


(1) The Registrar may register a foreign qualified person in the category independent
practice in any of the professions registered under the Act and for which independent practice applies, if such a person has:-

(a) complied with the qualification requirements for registration referred to in regulation 2 (2);

(b) (i) registered in terms of regulation 2 (2) and completed a minimum period of five years service in the public service; or

(ii) in the case of South African foreign qualified citizens, performed
community service in terms of section 24A of the Act in respect of the
professions for which community service applies; and

(c) passed the relevant examination for registration in the category independent practice.

The Relevant section of the Health Act says:


Community service

24A. (1) Notwithstanding section 24, any person registering for the first time for a profession listed in the regulations in terms of this Act after the commencement of the Medical, Dental and Supplementary Health Service Professions Amendment Act, 1997, shall perform remunerated medical community service for a period of one year in terms of the regulations contemplated in subsection (2) and shall, on the completion of such service, be entitled to practice the profession in question.

(2) The Minister may, after consultation with the council, make regulations concerning the performance of the service contemplated in subsection (1), including but not limited to-

(i) the place or places at which it is to be performed;

(ii) the conditions of employment.
[S. 24A inserted by s. 22 of Act 89 of 1997.]

[Martinw]

Originally Posted by bretongreen

Hello
I will be moving my family to Capetown from the US and will love advice on where we can live that is very secured and schools the children can go to, they are 13,11, and 7 years of Age.My wife and I are both Medical Doctors.
Thanks
Breton

I am sorry I thought I read that you are moving to SA from USA. Is ther domething wrong with you guys. I moved from SA to OZ. I can not believe that any person want to move their wife and children there. Oz i great. Peace calm, sleep without fear of your wife and daughter getting raped by a savage. Think you need to do your home work man.
Go to this website and if you still want to move there \I feel sorry for your family

http://dienuwesuidafrika.blogspot.co...its-war.htmlis doesnt scare you then you are either very brave( beacuse you are a doctor you cant be stupid)

If th

[Mickyxxx]

OZ what a boring dump they are all up themselves and the crime is escalating, I have relatives there who are bored out of their sculls. NZ is far better

[Martinw]

Yeah its is such a dump. I am just wondering why the biggest number of immigrants into Australia come from New Zealand. ( and most of them also happen to be the South Africans - Everyone knows that a lot of South Africans used NZ as a stepping stone to get to AUS a while back and prob still do.)Lets see. Excellent weather, rich country, good at sport, safety and security( and by the way if the crime escalates here, then we of course know what it is doing in any other part of the world)
Seeing that you say you have relatives here, I would take it that you dont acyually live here so how woulf you know if it is a boring dump. Oh yes sorry I missed the part where dodging bullets and hijackers in South Africa makes life exciting. If you are in South Africa, well you can enjoy doing all those funfilled activities everyday. I will will enjoy my "boring" life here and enjoying to spend quality and peacefull time with my family. Are you doing the same?

Originally Posted by Mickyxxx

OZ what a boring dump they are all up themselves and the crime is escalating, I have relatives there who are bored out of their sculls. NZ is far better

[Halo]

Originally Posted by Mickyxxx

OZ what a boring dump they are all up themselves and the crime is escalating, I have relatives there who are bored out of their sculls. NZ is far better

If you like the 70's

[Mickyxxx]

I live all over the world and my favourite place by far is SA I have been ripped off and robbed in Italy and London and almost shot in Bulgaria had my mobile stolen in Paris which ensued into a nasty brawl involving a dozen people but never had a prob in SA

an interesting article-

I dare you to visit Johannesburg, the city for softies

09 Mar 2009 12:00 | Jeremy Clarkson – London Sunday Times


It’s the least frightening place on earth, yet everyone speaks of how many times they’ve been killed that day.

Every city needs a snappy one-word handle to pull in the tourists and the investors. So, when you think of Paris, you think of love; when you think of New York, you think of shopping; and when you think of London – despite the best efforts of new Labour to steer you in the direction of Darcus Howe – you think of beefeaters and Mrs Queen.

Rome has its architecture. Sydney has its bridge. Venice has its sewage and Johannesburg has its crime. Yup, Jo’burg – the subject of this morning’s missive – is where you go if you want to be carjacked, shot, stabbed, killed and eaten.
You could tell your mother you were going on a package holiday to Kabul, with a stopover in Haiti and Detroit, and she wouldn’t bat an eyelid. But tell her you’re going to Jo’burg and she’ll be absolutely convinced that you’ll come home with no wallet, no watch and no head.

Jo’burg has a fearsome global reputation for being utterly terrifying, a lawless Wild West frontier town paralysed by corruption and disease. But I’ve spent quite a bit of time there over the past three years and I can reveal that it’s all nonsense.

If crime is so bad then how come, the other day, the front-page lead in the city’s main newspaper concerned the theft of a computer from one of the local schools? I’m not joking.

The paper even ran a massive picture of the desk where the computer used to sit. It was the least interesting picture I’ve ever seen in a newspaper. But then it would be, because this was one of the least interesting crimes.

“Pah,” said the armed guard who’d been charged with escorting me each day from my hotel to the Coca-Cola dome where I was performing a stage version of Top Gear.

Quite why he was armed I have absolutely no idea, because all we passed was garden centres and shops selling tropical fish tanks. Now I’m sorry, but if it’s true that the streets are a war zone, and you run the risk of being shot every time you set foot outside your front door, then, yes, I can see you might risk a trip to the shops for some food. But a fish tank? An ornamental pot for your garden? It doesn’t ring true.

Look Jo’burg up on Wikipedia and it tells you it’s now one of the most violent cities in the world . . . but it adds in brackets “citation needed”. That’s like saying Gordon Brown is a two-eyed British genius (citation needed).

Honestly? Johannesburg is Milton Keynes with thunderstorms. You go out. You have a lovely ostrich. You drink some delicious wine and you walk back to your hotel, all warm and comfy. It’s the least frightening place on earth. So why does every single person there wrap themselves up in razor wire and fit their cars with flame-throwers and speak of how many times they’ve been killed that day? What are they trying to prove?

Next year South Africa will play host to the football World Cup. The opening and closing matches will be played in Jo’burg, and no one’s going to go if they think they will be stabbed.
The locals even seem to accept this, as at the new airport terminal only six passport booths have been set aside for non-South African residents.

At first it’s baffling. Why ruin the reputation of your city and risk the success of the footballing World Cup to fuel a story that plainly isn’t true? There is no litter and no graffiti. I’ve sauntered through Soweto on a number of occasions now, swinging a Nikon round my head, with no effect. You stand more chance of being mugged in Monte Carlo.

Time and again I was told I could buy an AK47 for 100 rand – about £7. But when I said, “Okay, let’s go and get one”, no one had the first idea where to start looking. And they were even more clueless when I asked about bullets.
As I bought yet another agreeable carved doll from yet another agreeable black person, I wanted to ring up those idiots who compile surveys of the best and worst places to live and say: “Why do you keep banging on about Vancouver, you idiots? Jo’burg’s way better.”
Instead, however, I sat down and tried to work out why the locals paint their city as the eighth circle of hell. And I think I have an answer. It’s because they want to save the lions in the Kruger National Park.

I promise I am not making this up. Every night, people in Mozambique pack up their possessions and set off on foot through the Kruger for a new life in the quiet, bougainvillea-lined streets of Jo’burg. And very often these poor unfortunate souls are eaten by the big cats.
That, you may imagine, is bad news for the families of those who’ve been devoured. But actually it’s even worse for Johnny Lion. You see, a great many people in Mozambique have Aids, and the fact is this: if you can catch HIV from someone’s blood or saliva during a bout of tender love-making, you can be assured you will catch it if you wolf the person down whole. Even if you are called Clarence and you have a mane.
At present, it’s estimated that there are 2,000 lions in the Kruger National Park and studies suggest 90% have feline Aids. Some vets suggest the epidemic was started by lions eating the lungs of diseased buffalos. But there are growing claims from experts in the field that, actually, refugees are the biggest problem.
That’s clearly the answer, then.

Johannesburgians are telling the world they live in a ****-hole to save their lions. That’s the sort of people they are. And so, if you are thinking about going to the World Cup next year, don’t hesitate.

The exchange rate’s good, the food is superb, the weather’s lovely and, thanks to some serious economic self-sacrifice, Kruger is still full of animals. The word, then, I’d choose to describe Jo’burg is “tranquil”.

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[Daxk]

" but never had a prob in SA"
Which is why you keep on going back there.
Until something does happen whereupon you have this damascus type conversion and cant understand why anyone in their right mind wishes to go there.
Or you are so embarrassed that you neve mention it again online,just in case someone sings you the Sha nan naan na song.(which is the most frequent occurrence)
Or you are dead.

Or, you get seriously lucky and never have anything life threatening happen to you and just cant understand why people say its unsafe.

There are three kinds of people in SA.
Victims of Violent crime.
People who have'nt yet experienced Violent crime
Violent criminals.

The only people who can tell me theres no chance violent crime will happen to them in SA, are either already dead or not living in SA .