Good Morning everyone! Another wonderful unny: day! Back to work after our long weekend! 9 days until the end of term! :yes: 14 days until I am officially on holiday for 5 weeks. :hols:

Enjoy Tuesday

Wishing you both a very Happy Birthday.

:bday:

I am hoping to get some help here.

When I lost my job in April, a friend of mine, who used to consult for the company I worked for wanted me to immigrate to the US, where he is now based, after immigrating himself in April 2006. In his efforts to do so and to help me obtain a visa for the USA, he told his accountants that I worked for him, and he paid me a consulting fee. He didn't pay me any money and I didn't work for him either, although he has a company registered here in the UK.

I decided that this is not the way I want to get into another country because it would mean that I would have to lie, and I didn't want to do that. So I told him that I would rather wait until I have my British Citizenship and then try to apply for a US visa. I also don't want this to affect my ILR application or my Citizen application.

Inititally I went along, but after a few days (less than 2 weeks) I told him that I do not feel comfortable in lying. Needless to say he was not happy, but accepted it.

To cut a long story short...

I got a P60 from my old company with a tax code on it and now I have also received a P60 from his company with a fictitious amount, but the same tax code. I phoned the tax office today and told them that I have these 2 P60's. The lady told me that the tax code is wrong and I should've been taxed at a different rate 'coz I had two incomes. She said to send both the P60's to them with a covering letter. If I do that, that means that I admit to working for this guy, which I don't want to do.

I have since started a new job and I earn a lot less than what I did before, so I don't want to end up having my tax code adjusted and then get duffed by the tax man.

What should I do???

Please help.

I need to send a bank card to SA, any advice on companies would be appreciated.

we got a new little puppy yesterday to be friends with our 1 year old boy doggy.........we thought she would be perfect for him and they are both the same breed too...........only problem is that he just doesnt seem to like her and wont go anywhere near her. any ideas to help?

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Like mcamp already warned us it is a unny: unny: day!

Another new week ahead of us.... a week of new opportunities! Sterkte!

Have a lovely day! :yes:

Cecille Cilliers

Dit word laat lig in die Kaap, en dit was nog taamlik donker en ek kwalik wakker toe ek die afgelope week Donderdag, dink ek, die vroeg-oggend nuus aanskakel. Om te hoor hoe iemand Â’n gesprek voer oor die Raffajees . . .

Vroegoggend is my radio gewoonlik op die Afrikaanse sender, maar die stem praat Engels – nie dat dit ongewoon is nie. Maar dis duidelik ook nie die eie taal nie. Bepaald iets oor Indië, gaap ek, of dalk ’n nuwe politieke party in KwaZulu-Natal.

Klink my nogal nodig, daar. Hulle roei mekaar al weer uit.

Maar toe blyk dit dat daar 35 000 raffajees in die Moederstad is, en ons burgemeester kom aan die woord om te vertel hoedat hierdie vlugtelingprobleem (saam met die reeds bestaande derduisende werklose Oos-Kapenaars en die steeds hawelose plaaslike bevolking) aangepak moet word. Die arme Helen Zille moet skielik ouerskap aanvaar vir al die Kaap se probleme, van vantevore en van nou.

Ek het respek, want sy sien kans, die ANC se deurlopende treiterbeleid ten spyt.

Vyf en dertig duisend ekstra mense in ’n stad waarvan die bronne – water, krag, maar ook paaie, behuising – daagliks dunner gesmeer moet word, is onhoudbaar baie. En dit is slegs die bloot praktiese aspek van die probleem. In Perth, in Australië, is daar nou ongeveer net soveel Suid-Afrikaners, en die owerhede raak bekommerd oor die invloed van so ’n groot groep mense, veral as hulle ’n homogene groep bly. Simon van der Stel het toentertyd die Franse onder die Hollandse burgers staangemaak sodat hulle hul taal en maniertjies sou afsweer – in ons tyd is dit nie meer so maklik nie. In Nieu Seeland is daar groot bekommernis oor die baie Suid-Afrikaners en hul (moontlik) rassistiese lewensbeskouing. In Perth is dit nie soseer die rassisme wat pla nie, maar die aggressie, waarvan die Australiërs genoeg het, baie dankie. Ek het een aand op straat gesien hoedat die polisie ’n klomp veglustiges uitmekaar moes maak, en deur die bloed kon ek sweer die helfte van hulle was convicts uit Engeland tweehonderd jaar gelede en die ander helfte uit die Transvaal ses jaar gelede.

Maar ons kultuurbydrae is gelukkig darem nie geheel en al afwesig nie – in elke slaghuis in Perth is daar boerewors te koop. Hier in die Moederstad maak mens saans by die teater ’n goeie indruk as jy ’n Bonsoir m’sieu teenoor die motorwag kan bemeester. En miskien Comment ça va ? Hulle kom almal uit die Noorde, Frans is hul huistaal. By ’n geselligheid nou die aand is Afrika-kos bedien – hoender en grondboontjies, vis in ’n rissiesous. En die Djembetromme neem saans in die nagklubs oor. In Hillbrow, verstaan ek, is die omgangstaal nou Frans.

Die wêreld het inderdaad ’n global village geword, met ’n deurlopend verskuiwende bevolking. En Suid-Afrika is skynbaar die droombestemming van die ganse Afrika.

Maar waar moet dit eindig? Kaapstad sluk maar swaar. In die somer pryk daar steeds motorplakkers wat die ‘Vaalies ve*rseker dat Kaapstad hulle liefhet: but now please go home!

Wat nou nog van die Kongolese, die Burundese, die Rwandese, die Angolese, en die Nigeriërs?

His dragon-slaying heroics have kept his legend alive through the centuries.

But the Church of England is considering rejecting England's patron saint St George on the grounds that his image is too warlike and may offend Muslims.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/ar..._a_source=

The elderly and sick have been warned to stay inside today as Britain basks in the hottest weather of the year so far.

Temperatures are expected to hit 90f (32c) by the early afternoon before peaking at 91f (33c) tomorrow as a warm front sweeps in from the Mediterranean.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/ar...urce=&ct=5

Fears about eating beef from cattle pumped up with growth hormones have been raised by a government expert.

John Verrall said there is alarming evidence it can trigger breast and other cancers, bring forward puberty in girls and increase the risk of genital abnormalities in boys.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/ar...=NEWS&ct=5