Fleeing From South Africa

[R13...]

heads up
those chicken runners headed for the UK should take note that UK immigration will require at least a masters degree for highly skilled immigrants starting in a month.

 

[Retro]

Why? (real question not sarcasm)

Because of the economy. I know of quite a few people who are back in SA cause they lost their jobs and couldn't find anything else. With all the retrenchments happening, people from other countries are mostly the first to go.

 

[Mila]

heads up
those chicken runners headed for the UK should take note that UK immigration will require at least a masters degree for highly skilled immigrants starting in a month.

Now we know why Mr Chang is still stuck here. Still i can go to the UK... but why the UK? The world is much bigger.

 

[Mila]

Because of the economy. I know of quite a few people who are back in SA cause they lost their jobs and couldn't find anything else. With all the retrenchments happening, people from other countries are mostly the first to go.

Oke so it was not by choice it was forced. Cool thanx I know that Aus is sending back 100 000 lazy ass south africans too....

 

[TooFastTim]

Oke so it was not by choice it was forced. Cool thanx I know that Aus is sending back 100 000 lazy ass south africans too....

Sarcasm? Or source please.

 

[R13...]

Now we know why Mr Chang is still stuck here. Still i can go to the UK... but why the UK? The world is much bigger.

Master Chang is actually highly qualified... he will use that only when the sky starts falling, and he doesn't expect it to start falling any time soon.

 

[Slootvreter]

Sorry, already gone. The biggest concern we have here in Switzerland is, long weekend in Italy or France. I'm not joking either. I don’t have to worry about being high jacked or my wife being raped. AND my tax rate is less than 10%. Makes you wonder how the government here does it.

It's always easier to get things done in a homogeneous society.

 

[Slootvreter]

The cost of living in SA has risen quite dramatically - almost in line with the crime. Happiness is not being mugged with a .45 on your way to the shops.

When they break into your house while sleeping, tie you up, steal everything you have and wreck the place, and then people say 'Oh well at least they didn't rape you'. That's happiness, sadly.

 

[Mila]

Master Chang is actually highly qualified... he will use that only when the sky starts falling, and he doesn't expect it to start falling any time soon.

LOLZ!!!!

Sarcasm? Or source please.

Friends over there, but i'll get the source hang on.

 

[TooFastTim]

Friends over there, but i'll get the source hang on.

The expat SA community in Aus is about 140,000 strong. Are you saying that more than two thirds of those ex SA people are going to return to a country where, in spite of their skills, they will be discriminated against in the workplace? They will also, if they have PR and have been unfortunate to lose their jobs, receive a comfortable unemployment benefit, unlike in SA where they *might* receive unemployment benefits.

C'mon, get real.

 

[CyraxHB]

heads up
those chicken runners headed for the UK should take note that UK immigration will require at least a masters degree for highly skilled immigrants starting in a month.

I got my visa just in time then.

 

[MacNabs]

The global financial crisis in other first world countries, is more like the good old days in the old SA. I have noticed of late how new immigrants to NZ are only too taken back at how easy things here are, this is despite the global credit crisis. I am speaking for New Zealand as that’s where I am currently living. But new immigrants now find it very hard to set themselves up financially, the costs of moving, flights etc have gotten so expensive to those earning Rands, eventually these costs are going to be out of reach for many. Many Saffas arrive here having to still sort out debt back home.

Yes the country is in a so called “recession”, just like the States, Europe, Aus and many other countries. But the difference here is the government is doing something. IE, creating jobs by boosting government spending and creating big projects, new roads, upgrading the public transport systems etc etc… Interest rates here have come down to record lows. Quiet the opposite can be said for SA.

Bottom line is the basic costs of living here are still 100times better than SA, here we have free excellent schools, free excellent quality health care, very low interest rates, and a very low unemployment rate, under 4%. Yet people in SA seem to think you better off not leaving. I don’t understand the logic.

There is now ways in hell I would return to SA if I lost my job here, Would rather be jobless in NZ than jobless and discriminated against in good old SA, besides the odds of me finding work again in NZ are far higher than finding work in SA with AA, BEE and all that other cr@p.

 

[Milano]

A 1st world country would need 100 years of recession or more to reach South African standards of health care, education, etc.