Skills, growth and borders: managing migration in South Africa’s national interest


Date: May 28, 2012
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South Africa is suffering a debilitating skills shortage. Its own skills production system is grossly inefficient. Making matters worse, skilled people have been leaving the country at an alarming rate.

The whole system of skills production needs to be reformed, but that will produce results only in the long term. In the mean time, South Africa needs urgently to reform its migration policies so that hundreds of thousands of skilled people can be enabled and encouraged to live and work here.

We need to reform other elements of our migration system . In particular, we need to revisit the way we think about and implement policies governing flows of irregular migrants and asylum-seekers.

CDE has published reports on these issues for more than a decade. A new report makes the case for reducing South Africa’s skills shortages by recruiting large numbers of skilled foreigners and managing better the flows of economic migrants and asylum-seekers was published in November 2010.


Publisher: CDE
Edition: Research No 17
Year of Publication: 2010

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