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Amanda Stueve

Reversing Africa's 'brain drain': New initiatives tap skills of African expatriates - 0 views

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shared by Amanda Stueve on 29 May 07 - Cached
  • Amanda Stueve on 29 May 07
     
    Good statistics, again. Describes the exodus of people from Africa, and the solution that SANSA proposes to reverse it.
Amanda Stueve

LABOUR: Reversing South Africa's Brain Drain - 0 views

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  • the country's dark days of post-apartheid crime, that triggered an exodus of the white population are over. According to them new opportunites are building up and there is no more ‘reverse discrimination' against whites.
  • The reality today is that if you are black, young, and male, your chances of being affected by crime is much higher,
  • Whites constitute most of the South African expatriates.
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  • encouraging trends
  • one white for every 11 blacks in the population, of every 33 murder victims only one is white
  • while blacks still account for 31 percent of the unemployed, the rate for the whites was only five percent.
  • Amanda Stueve on 29 May 07
     
    Ok. Wow. I so did not think of white South Africans when I thought about African professionals. The statistics they are using to try to convince white expatriates to return to South Africa are very interesting.
Amanda Stueve

DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: As Long as Crisis Continues, Border Jumping Will - 0 views

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shared by Amanda Stueve on 25 May 07 - Cached
  • Amanda Stueve on 25 May 07
     
    The same reason that these people are leaving Zimbabwe--the political and economic situation--is probably the reason, or at least related to the reason that African healthcare professionals are leaving their countries.
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