About Us
Enough about us - let's talk about you
Are you a South African living abroad or thinking of moving?
Are you looking for information, entertainment, business and social contacts, advice and moral support?
Are you looking for a job, staff, suppliers, or service providers?
Are you interested in general information relevant to South Africans in New Zealand and around the world?
Does your business provide products and services of interest to South African expatriates?
Then you need to be HERE. Log in and lets LINK South Africa!
There's so much to do on our site!
Autumn is on the way and New Zealand is changing colour. We've welcomed a couple of new suppliers of music and homeware into our online shop, you'll see there are a few more South African artists advertised now, like Bok van Blerk, as well as beautiful fabric homeware creations by Soul Safari. Our directories are growing, and so is our membership. We closed 2009 with 150 newsletter subscribers and in only three months (March 2010) we've grown to 207. We're fund raising for Plunket by selling the Entertainment Book online for all regions in New Zealand, so please support us by indulging in some fabulous wining, dining and entertainment for the whole family!
Inquiries: info@linksouthafrica.co.nz
Our Company Profile
Download our Company Profile - LinkSouthAfrica Company Profile 2008.pdf
Download our latest Google Analytics - LinkSA Google Analytics Feb2010.pdf
Welcome to an exciting new LINK for South Africans in New Zealand - there's so much to do on our site!
From beautiful South Africa to beautiful New Zealand and back, it’s all here at your fingertips. Link South Africa is a new online hub for South Africans living in New Zealand. It’s a home away from home, a lively community network and quite simply a cool place to be. A place to be supported, educated, entertained and more . . . This is THE site for exciting news, views, info, connections en 'n bietjie skinner!
Our Vision
We want to get to know all South Africans living in New Zealand! To be your link to each other, to New Zealand and to your roots back home.
Our Mission
We're a social networking community website primarily for South Africans, but welcoming any visitors, contributors and advertisers who want to help South Africans establish links in New Zealand. We're a continuously evolving website, exploring new online attractions and activities. Our simple business rule is that if an advert placed on our website is not for the personal gain of the advertiser or anybody else, then we will publish the advertisement for FREE.
Stats Dated Dec 2009
401 visits per month
150 newsletter subscribers
20 directory listings
Short Term Goals (Jan - Jun 2010)
900 visits per month
280 newsletter subscribers
50 directory listings
Short term goals to be revised and updated Jul - Dec 2010 (published Jul 2010)
Our Products and Services
Link South Africa has a vast range of products and services to cater to our diverse audience. All aspects of our service are highly professional and we have high standards for the content and design of our site.
Website Advertising
As well as basic advertising spots, there is also premium advertising space available on our website, ideally suited to larger corporations. We have great banner advertising space on our site, plus searchable directories, which you can change and update as many times as you like for FREE. You can include info, images, geographic locations, contact details and lots more!
BusinessLink
is a business directory, where you can market your products and services to South Africans
SocialLink
is a directory, where you can advertise social events, sports groups, gigs, performances, networking groups, church groups - even coffee groups for moms and babies!
JobLink
is a directory, where you can advertise job vacancies or your own CV
TradeLink
is a directory, where you can buy, sell, rent, or simply give something away
Be part of our online community
Online subscription to Link South Africa is FREE. Email alerts and newsletters are regularly sent out to subscribers to highlight news, community events, or website developments.
InfoLink
is where you can find news articles, plus step-by-step help articles like passport renewals, dual citizenship, and birth registrations
ShopLink
is where you can find loads of nice things to buy! Talk to us about selling your products online worldwide
PeopleLink
is where you can see who else is living in New Zealand. Register on PeopleLink for FREE and make new connections or renew old ones
BookClub
is where you can read reviews, submit reviews, receive gifts from us, and chat to other book worms about your latest reading indulgence!
Competitions
We're often running different competitions on our site with all sorts of prizes to be won. You could win a prize for simply listing in one of our directories! The best way to keep an eye on current competitions is to subscribe to our newsletter.
Letters from you
Send us stories of your experiences moving to and living in other countries, with any tips, tricks and encouragement for other South Africans going through the same thing. There are loads of prizes to be won for the best letters sent in. Letters are published once every month, so you can send your story in anytime!
Blog
Have your say about articles on our site. Ask each other questions and make comments. Nice ones :-)
Our Audience
Likely Visitors & Subscribers
- South Africans living in or moving to New Zealand looking for information, entertainment, business and social contacts, jobs, advice, and moral support
- New Zealand businesses looking for staff, suppliers and services providers
- Anybody interested in general information relevant to South Africans in New Zealand
Selling flights to South Africa? Got special call rates to South Africa? Advertise here!
Likely Advertisers
- South African-owned businesses in New Zealand promoting their products and services
- New Zealand businesses looking to penetrate the South African community
- South African-based businesses looking for markets in New Zealand
- South African and New Zealand professionals promoting themselves as points of contact in businesses in New Zealand
- Community, sports and social groups promoting themselves to the South African community in New Zealand
- Businesses looking for staff
- People looking for jobs
- People looking to sell, buy, or give away anything
Unique Market
Our target market for advertisers is unique. Unlike other directory and media websites, we focus directly on the South African community living in New Zealand. Information and news is specifically relevant to this market and also to New Zealanders who may consider South Africa as an import or export market, or travel destination.
Creating Links
At Link South Africa, we believe in collaboration and being of service to others. Rather than competing with other South African social groups in New Zealand who may or may not have their own websites, we would like to help them expand and increase their visibility in New Zealand by providing an alternative marketing hub designed and custom-built in order to deliver great results to our advertisers and an uplifting experience for our readers.
We want to be YOUR link to the South African community!
Our advertising rates will always be set on a value-for-money basis and our advertising process is easy. We will work closely with our advertisers to continually evolve the Link South Africa website into their preferred marketing hub for reaching South Africans in New Zealand.
Our Future
We will continuously enhance our website, exploring new online attractions and activities for visitors, and seek suggestions from the community of what they would like to see and do on Link South Africa.
Ensuring Visibility
We are committed to frequent, energetic and professional marketing campaigns to introduce our company to South Africans in New Zealand. Examples of how we will achieve visibility are:
- Marketing of the Link South Africa brand
- Selling and distributing promotional apparel and materials
- Competitions with prize incentives
- Customer and visitor referral incentives
- Loyalty programmes
Uplifting Content
We will only produce and publish content on the Link South Africa website which is truthful, positive and tolerant. Link South Africa will be an uplifting site which will have benefits for both New Zealanders and South Africans alike.
Benefits to New Zealand
- Helping to educate South African migrants about the New Zealand way of life and business, thus assisting settlement in New Zealand
- Encouraging South Africans to act responsibly in their migration to and resettlement in New Zealand
- Supporting New Zealand community innitiatives
- Establishing a large, vital and vibrant marketing portal for New Zealand-based enterprises to reach the South African community in New Zealand
- Marketing South Africa to New Zealand businesses as a potential import and export market, and a holiday destination to New Zealand travellers
Benefits to South Africa
- Useful information, trustworthy advice
- Encouraging the retention of South African citizenship by South Africans currently living abroad
- Encouraging the purchase of South African products in New Zealand
- Encouraging travel to South Africa
- Educating and informing South African expatriates of South African laws and requirements relevant to their circumstances in New Zealand
- Providing South Africans, especially new comers, with general but important everyday information about settling in New Zealand
- Encourage South Africans to be proud of who they are
Benefit to YOU
It's a great way to establish your personal links to South Africans living in New Zealand!