IT exec here who left recently.
I didn’t leave for money, and I have no children. I left because the stress of seeing people suffer and being exposed to the rampant race based politics and ostrich-head-in-the-sand attitude like yours signald the end of rational thought and any interest in making things better.
Probably you are not exposed to IT management politics but due to the growing void of competence in the hiring base and massive corruption above it simply became impossible to do business or make any real impact to rapidly collapsing infrastructure.
The economic situation has killed IT budgets nearly everywhere, along with out investments and savings, and companies have outsourced almost everything to money grabbing useless management consultants for the kick backs and because they are unable to get competent staff with the funds available to them.
Unless you want to click buttons in a web interface and spend your life talking to idiots there is no more IT happening in SA, people are not innovating and they have no imagination or drive left.
And of course, computers don’t work terribly well without electricity.
Sorry to say if you are one of the many millions not fortunate enough to qualify for immigration but your future is very very bleak for the next few years.
Translation: I'm brainwashed by right wing propaganda and so I'm running away screaming with my panties in a twist.
Apart from the fact that we do in fact have loadshedding, nothing in your post is fact, it's just histrionics from a rightwing sissy. Africa is not for sissies.
Good execs will still get opportunities in spite of BEE. These must be people who rose to management just because they were white even though they were not qualified.
This has been my experience. In most cases, especially for specialist roles there are very few BEE candidates and so the roles go to non-BEE candidates. One might take issue with BEE candidates getting first shot but that is the nature of reparations. You are free to not like that. I'd prefer it weren't the case but apartheid happened and we must
all pay the price now. Blame the Nats if you need someone to blame.
When you come to think about it, there is no good reason to suffer in this sh1thole of a country. Get out while you still can and enjoy what's left of your life. Leave this country to it's inevitable fate. It's not going to end well.
Citation needed.
Is not difficult to predict South Africa's future. #LiveWithIt
If you are able to do this then you must be like Rain Man for the JSE. Are you an investment guru, because buddy you should be with this kind of knowledge.
But you're not are you? You're just a whiny white oke on MyBB talking out your ass.
The ANC has failed this country in each and every aspect possible. There is not one single good thing they did from 1994.
Go tell this to the folks who lived in shacks with no electricity that now live in RDP homes with running water and solar panels.
There's a ceiling. I worked in one of the banks and we had one the best execs I have ever worked with. The man was truly amazing. Restructuring happened and he was overlooked because he was white. Left the country shortly thereafter.
About two months later, his stand in who is also white, also quit the company for the same reason.
These are not the type of people you can just replace. RSA is much poorer without them.
I have seen this too. It's tough as hell but it's not as tough as coming from a subset of the population that was systematically oppressed for 50 years.
Cases like the one you have raised are rough when you look through a 5 year lens, woden that window to 50 years and the perspective changes dramatically.
The guy you mention had every opportunity to achieve at the level that he did. He's risen to a high level in the corporate world through hard work and intelligence. Imagine trying to do that if you grew up in a village in Limpopo, hell, imagine simply trying to get into university when you are the first person in your family to be able to read.
I have no illusions about this country and if I was able, I would also probably leave.
However.
All those who have left, yet still feels the need to hang around these forums giving their opinions about what is going on here should rather just stay out of it.
So I agree.
You left. Why still so obsessed with what is going on here? Why the constant need to inject your views regarding a country you abandoned?
Quite frankly
Every time someone comes on here to state 'I am so glad I left' I feel like strangling them.
It's obnoxious and conceited.
Good for you. No need to brag about it.
Emigration is tough as hell. I think a lot of people go through periods of profound regret. What you are seeing is buyer's remorse essentially. I also think many folks eventually get over this and fully embrace their new identity.
