Top CEO says:
South Africa is experiencing
the world's biggest Brain Drain

Date Posted: Friday 07-Mar-2008

http://www.africancrisis.co.za/Article.php?ID=23829& 

[Here is an excerpt from a company memo by the CEO of a major bank. Jan]

Brain Drain

 

South Africa is experiencing the worst “brain drain” of any country as highly qualified professionals settle abroad, an authoritative international study has shown. Record numbers of South Africans are leaving – many of them doctors, teachers and engineers – in the biggest exodus for almost 50 years. There are now 3.247 million South African-born people living abroad, of whom more than 1.1 million are highly-skilled university graduates, say the researchers. More than three quarters of these professionals have settled abroad for more than 10 years, according to the study by the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). No other nation is losing so many qualified people, it points out. South Africa has now lost more than one in ten of its most skilled citizens, while overall only Mexico has had more people emigrate. The OECD found that 27.3 per cent of those emigrating had health or education qualifications, 37.7 per cent had humanities or social science degrees and 28.5 per cent were scientists or engineers. South Africa has a shortage of graduates in many of these fields and universities have long warned that some of the brightest hopes are being lost to higher salaries abroad.
Posted By: Jan
AfricanCrisis Webmaster
Author of: Government by Deception
 

Readers' Comments

Date Posted: Friday 07-Mar-2008
That's 85 balcks and say another 6-8 dependents per black.
Total - 85 blacks unemployed without another whitey to go to for week and 510-680 additional blacks without food.
Muntonomics at it's unattainable, unparalleled best - how can Arsezania NOT become the economic miracle of the universe with these incredibly gifted creatures in control?

Cynic
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Date Posted: Friday 07-Mar-2008

Here's just one businessman with 85 employees who is all set to emigrate after the following experience:

Afrikaner Etienne Kruger arrested for refusing to bribe to cop at Erasmusrand

Mr Etienne Kruger of Erasmusrand - who helped police arrested a suspected burglar -- was thrown into a police-cell overnight because he refused to pay a police officer a R5,000 bribe in return for the cop 'dropping an assault charge.'

Kruger told Virginia Keppler of Beeld newspaper in Pretoria that another cop, a guard at the house of home-affairs minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula tried to calm the situation down.

The drama occurred in front of Kruger's home which is near the Home Affairs minister's residence.

He said he had spotted to suspected burglars while they were climbing across a wall and immediately alerted the police.
"My wife pushed the alarm button. My son and I, Tiaan, 20, ran to the street and went and stood on the corner because we knew these men had gone to that erf,' he said.

An ADT-security guard was on the scene very quickly and Kruger said he tried to catch one of the men who them tried to run away from the erf he had been spotted in - but he got away.

Another ADT-guard then showed up and they, together with his son Tiaan, then helped catch the other suspect hiding in the back yard.

This guard asked Mr Kruger to 'hold on to the arrested man' while he called for reinforcements on the radio.
"I walked with this arrested man to the Minister's home to ask the guard there for handcuffs but they didn't have any,' he said.

As soon as the police arrived, the ADT-guards had left - but left a note in his mailbox saying 'one suspect arrested'.

Then the suspect claimed that Kruger had 'assaulted him where he slept in the garden' - demanding that Kruger take him to his own doctor and a private hospital for treatment - but Kruger indignantly refused and told the police the man was lying.
That's when one of the policemen told Kruger that if the Afrikaner paid him a R5,000 bribe, he would not lodge a charge against him.'

Kruger refused, was arrested and thrown into the police van together with the suspected burglar to Brooklyn police station.

The police guards at the Home Affairs Minister's home - who had witnessed everything - kept telling the police that 'this is wrong, you are arresting the wrong man...' but the cop refused to listen.

The cops 'drove very roughly and I hurt my leg during the ride,' Kruger said.

Mr Kruger was released at noon yesterday on 'warning'.
Police captain Phillip Lekoantsane told Beeld that the 53-year-old 'complainant' -- i.e. the suspected burglar arrested by the ADT-security guards -- allegedly was a gardener at Kruger's neighbours.
He denied that Kruger had been asked to pay a R5,000 bribe.

The case is now 'being investigated', he said.

Kruger said he's now had enough.
He is going to declare the work-contracts of his 85 employers null-and-void, close down his business and leave the country with his family - forever.
"I give up," he said.

ADT-security company said they were still 'investigating' and can't comment as yet.

http://www.news24.com/Beeld/Suid-Afrika/0,,3-...

A Stuijt
 

Date Posted: Friday 07-Mar-2008
It used to be referred to as a 'migration pattern' in the history books. An entire nation is now moving en-masse out of their homeland within just a decade and are now scattering into the diaspora.

A Stuijt

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