We know you make fun of us up there in the Big Smoke guys. We may be beautifully tanned but we can still hear your beachside mockery every December and January when you flock to our shores…

‘Check how none of these okes have kiff tribal tattoos’, ‘this doos doesn’t even have burglar bars on his top window’, ‘I have been here four days and not seen one fight, where’s the jol at?’

You cut us deep, you really do. But what of poor business owners forced to live in Jozi year-round in order to maintain the illusion of professionalism?

Fear not, businessmen and women, a group of sneaky execs in Knysna have the answer. How about pretending to work in Jozi whilst kicking it on the Garden Route? This from TimesLive:

You can have Johannesburg telephone numbers, a Johannesburg address and even a “virtual” secretary who reroutes incoming calls to a renovated hotel on [Knysna] Main Road or to wherever you happen to be…

Nobody in Joburg can tell that I’m not in Joburg,” said Andrew Wood, who founded The Directors Club in Knysna last year…

The club hopes to expand right throughout the continent, including fifteen branches dotted around South Africa. Whether they will have something set up in Joburg for those who don’t want to set foot in Pretoria remains to be seen.

[source:timeslive]