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In a letter to the editor of Business Day, Michael Bagraim, MP and Democratic Alliance (DA) deputy shadow employment and labour minister, writes that whenever we read about our most educated citizens leaving the country we lament that the flight of skills will leave the country worse off.
Professionals are nurtured and trained at great cost to the country, and they are expected to put back into the system the value they gained from that training. Which is why it is so strange that the department of employment & labour “spends such an enormous amount of time and effort discouraging foreigners with skills from coming to the country to share their skills. Bagraim says he has been involved in numerous cases where qualified experts have wanted to come to play specialised roles in the SA economy. These experts have offered to train locals to perform their tasks and take over the jobs when the experts leave. It would be a simple task to engage with the employers of these foreigners to ensure their knowledge was handed over through training within a specified period. However, according to Bagraim, the department is reluctant to even entertain discussions of such a nature, “leaving us with a situation where we have a flight of our own skills and don’t allow others to come in to replace them and enhance our economy.”
- Read the original of the above letter at BusinessLive
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