For every skilled professional coming to South Africa, 8 are leaving

[Disir]

For years, poor governance and policy changes in South Africa have pushed skilled professionals into seeking greener pastures overseas. While this has mostly been associated with white South Africans, more recent findings show that black professionals are now more likely to jump ship.

This is according to Johannes Wessels, director of entrepreneurial non-profit, The Enterprise Observatory of South Africa (EOSA), who highlighted some alarming findings in the Department of Home Affairs’ 2017 white paper on emigration.

For every professional immigrating to South Africa – eight professionals are emigrating, the researchers found, and while a large number of white professionals were making the jump, in recent years, the annual number of black professionals leaving South Africa exceeds the tally of professional white emigrants.

The researchers found that between 1989 and 2003, over 120,000 of the 520,000 mainly white emigrants had professional qualifications (one in four) and SA lost 7% of its total stock of professionals.
For every skilled professional coming to South Africa, 8 are leaving

They are using stats from 16 years ago......

 

[harmonica]

Africa is a shithole --why wouldn't they?

 

[JBvM]

Africa is a shithole --why wouldn't they?

The OP addresses a situation in a nation. Africa is a continent. I should ask

How many times have you been to Africa and to what nations?

 

[JBvM]

For years, poor governance and policy changes in South Africa have pushed skilled professionals into seeking greener pastures overseas. While this has mostly been associated with white South Africans, more recent findings show that black professionals are now more likely to jump ship.

This is according to Johannes Wessels, director of entrepreneurial non-profit, The Enterprise Observatory of South Africa (EOSA), who highlighted some alarming findings in the Department of Home Affairs’ 2017 white paper on emigration.

For every professional immigrating to South Africa – eight professionals are emigrating, the researchers found, and while a large number of white professionals were making the jump, in recent years, the annual number of black professionals leaving South Africa exceeds the tally of professional white emigrants.

The researchers found that between 1989 and 2003, over 120,000 of the 520,000 mainly white emigrants had professional qualifications (one in four) and SA lost 7% of its total stock of professionals.
For every skilled professional coming to South Africa, 8 are leaving

They are using stats from 16 years ago......

lots of nations experience a brain drain. why? jobs opportunities among other issues

 

[harmonica]

Africa is a shithole --why wouldn't they?

The OP addresses a situation in a nation. Africa is a continent. I should ask

How many times have you been to Africa and to what nations?

South Africa is in Africa--isn't it??
ahahahhaha
Africa has the highest:
poverty
illiteracy
starvation
lack of potable water
lack of sanitation--literally and figuratively a shithole
etc

 

[JBvM]

another thread not worth keeping going

 

[Pilot1]

The South African government is in the midst of punishing whites by confiscating their land by force. Why would anyone with any type of skills want to move to such an unstable, hostile country?

 

[deanrd]

For years, poor governance and policy changes in South Africa have pushed skilled professionals into seeking greener pastures overseas. While this has mostly been associated with white South Africans, more recent findings show that black professionals are now more likely to jump ship.

This is according to Johannes Wessels, director of entrepreneurial non-profit, The Enterprise Observatory of South Africa (EOSA), who highlighted some alarming findings in the Department of Home Affairs’ 2017 white paper on emigration.

For every professional immigrating to South Africa – eight professionals are emigrating, the researchers found, and while a large number of white professionals were making the jump, in recent years, the annual number of black professionals leaving South Africa exceeds the tally of professional white emigrants.

The researchers found that between 1989 and 2003, over 120,000 of the 520,000 mainly white emigrants had professional qualifications (one in four) and SA lost 7% of its total stock of professionals.
For every skilled professional coming to South Africa, 8 are leaving

They are using stats from 16 years ago......

Not just South Africa.

Physician Emigration from Sub-Saharan Africa to the United States: Analysis of the 2011 AMA Physician Masterfile

Brain drain of African doctors costs sub-Saharan Africa billions, saved U.S. nearly $900 million

It's why we have so many black doctors and black engineers coming from what Trump calls "sh!t whole" countries.

 

[deanrd]

The South African government is in the midst of punishing whites by confiscating their land by force. Why would anyone with any type of skills want to move to such an unstable, hostile country?

Well, you could say that about Appalachia or the Deep South.

If any black doctors or engineers moved there from Africa, it would be by mistake, right?

Because they didn't know what those areas are like and how dangerous they are to Africans and African Americans.