The new chicken run

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Seems more people are leaving than ever, can't say I blame them:

The number of South Africans wanting to move abroad has risen sharply this year, according to emigration consultants -- and they say Jacob Zuma and Eskom are to blame.

South Africa is afflicted by the world's biggest skills exodus and has the worst skills shortages of 55 countries, according to last year's Competitiveness Yearbook and Productivity SA.

The country is particularly short of engineers, ranking last in this category and not all those leaving are white, the manager of Afriforum's "come home" campaign, Alana Bailey, says. A third of emigrés who have contacted her organisation about returning to South Africa are black. Last month more than 11 000 South Africans flocked to the Opportunities Australian Expo at Gallagher Estate in Johannesburg in search of greener pastures. The expo was designed to put skilled South Africans directly in touch with Australian employers.

Four emigration companies told the Mail & Guardian the numbers seeking their services had more than doubled over the past month.

"The Eskom crises and Zuma being elected president of the ANC are the main causes of people's uncertainty about the country's future," said Bruce Sherman, general manager of Immigration Unit's South African branch.

"We recently had seminars in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg attended by hundreds of people," Sherman said. "At the Johannesburg seminar we had to turn 100 people away because the venue was too small for all those that showed up."

Gary Chapman, MD of ACN Consultants in Johannesburg, said the number of would-be emigrants who had approached his company had doubled since the beginning of the year.

Chapman, an Australian-qualified immigration lawyer, said he had detected a new sense of urgency among clients. "Normally people just want to find out about the process of emigration at first. But lately people are adamant -- they've decided, and as soon they get their visas they're gone."

Australia is the number one destination for South African emigrants, with between 12 000 and 13 000 people moving there permanently or temporarily each year, Chapman said. Only 0,1% ever return. Australian government statistics estimate that 75 000 South Africans permanently relocated to Australia between 1995 to 2005.

The South African Marketing Research Association has described Australia as the biggest threat to South Africa's skilled workforce.

The Australian government has launched various campaigns in recent months to recruit skilled South Africans, including a specific campaign to poach police officers in October last year and a drive to recruit engineers on the mines.

Statistics released by the South African High Commission in the United Kingdom indicate that in 2006, between 750 000 and 1,4-million South Africans were living in London alone.

There are no recent government statistics on the number and categories of South Africans emigrating, but the Engineering Council of South Africa said about 300 qualified engineers leave South Africa every year.

A Centre for Global Development study, published last year, indicated that about 65 000 African-born medical doctors (about 20% of total) and 70 000 African-born professional nurses (10% of total) were working abroad in developed countries in 2000.

The skills shortage has a crippling effect on government. A Centre of Skills Development and Training report last October indicated more than 320 000 vacant positions in local and provincial government in December 2006 *- 28% of the government workforce.
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"Only 0.1% ever return" :eek:

I guess they found their greener pastures :D
 
one of my favorite movies (the Chicken Run) the airlines and medical people are really spread thin, when people start to retire, you will not get replacements - I think it has got past the point were people say, well if you don't like it go somewhere else
 
Yip... can't see how leaving a country thats slowly going to hell being a chicken run...

Lets see.
1.) Zuma for president.
2.) No electricity.
3.) Water crisis imminant.
4.) Roads going to hell.
5.) Corrupt and useless government.
6.) Rampant crime.
7.) Rape of the elderly and children - nevermind normal folk.
8.) Violent crime.
9.) General corruption everywhere.
10.) Rising interest rate.
11.) Property dip surely to follow
12.) Rising food prices
13.) Rising petrol prices, think we're up about 40% over the past two years.
14.) Police who don't work, or care to do so.
15.) Tourists now get robbed on arrival at the international airports.

Did I miss anything?

I'm sure the list goes on and on and on and on and on... the skilled workers leaving are also the workers who can't get jobs because of their skin colour...

...all these make this country a lovely place to live... when my job is complete, I'm off too... no real point in staying... call me a chicken, I don't care... I know my family and I only get one life, I'm not having it taken from me over a cellphone or R5.
 
xrapidx said:
...all these make this country a lovely place to live... when my job is complete, I'm off too... no real point in staying... call me a chicken, I don't care... I know my family and I only get one life, I'm not having it taken from me over a cellphone or R5.
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I agree.

Oh, and you forgot

16.) Our esteemed Minister of Safety & Security, Charles Nqakula, told us if we don't like crime we should leave. And I really don't like crime.

How arrogant is that? My family has been here for 4 generations, born and bred, but I am told to leave the country of my birth? Ha, well I know plenty of others that will welcome me with open arms.
 
timgaul said:
I agree.

Oh, and you forgot

16.) Our esteemed Minister of Safety & Security, Charles Nqakula, told us if we don't like crime we should leave. And I really don't like crime.

How arrogant is that? My family has been here for 4 generations, born and bred, but I am told to leave the country of my birth? Ha, well I know plenty of others that will welcome me with open arms.
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I guess I'll be following his advice then. :rolleyes:
 
Honestly I think one of the major factors is that other countries UK, Australia, NZ and Canada are actively poaching our skilled staff...

They make the whole process very easy and are offering very competitive salaries even after taking into account the higher cost of living...
 
GavinMannion said:
Honestly I think one of the major factors is that other countries UK, Australia, NZ and Canada are actively poaching our skilled staff...

They make the whole process very easy and are offering [relative safety and] very competitive salaries even after taking into account the higher cost of living...
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Looking at the jobs section in the Sunday Times, I never saw Eishkom advertising all the expert skills jobs, but Aus virtually dominated the advertising looking for people with high formal qualifications and a good few years of experience - and why shouldn't they capitalise on the situation, when our own governmental organisations such as Eishkom refuse to hire them.

Most South African's responding to these job offers are sick and tired of the high risk of becoming a victim of violent crime, and the unequal playing field when it comes to jobs.

I had a service business with Eishkom being my major client, but towards the end of 1997 they informed me that I needed to confirm my BEE compliance as the cut-off date for dealings with non-BEE companies was drawing near - I dissolved the company and took employment abroad - screw that - I risked all and built the business up from the ground and was not prepared to establish a partnership with someone that was not deserving of it.

Eishkom are bypassing the AA/BEE laws by attempting to recruit skills, from places like the UK, on a contract basis.
 
Only 0.01% come back....

Lol A country needs its skilled workers... SA is screwed
 
GavinMannion said:
Honestly I think one of the major factors is that other countries UK, Australia, NZ and Canada are actively poaching our skilled staff...

They make the whole process very easy and are offering very competitive salaries even after taking into account the higher cost of living...
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So?

South Africa is afflicted by the world's biggest skills exodus
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No surprise there. :o
 
Sa is an awesome country but the african mentality of not wanting to work hard will show its effects someday
 
The source of all our probelms is the "Heathen" phsycology of s.a's leaders, yet still instead of realising the cause of the problems (AA/BEE) and solving it, they start accusing other leaders of stealing the proffesionals!?!?!, are they that thick headed?, yes they are.

S.a will be like bagdad where engineers are going to be paid huge contracts to come in and do simple jobs.
 
I have a friend who's father used to be one of the top engineers at Eskom. He helped to build Kooberg. In the last 10 years he was more and more marginalised until he was laid off and only ever called in if something went wrong and they couldn't fix it. Unfortunately for him (and our country in the end) he wasn't black. In his 50s he has now been head hunted by British Energy to help look after their many nuclear power stations.

Just another example of the brain drain and this one like most others we can put totally at the feet of our government and their BEE policies.
 
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