Posted on 05/24/2019 7:20:56 AM PDT by Perseverando
The number of skilled professionals committed to a career in South Africa is declining according to the 2019 PPS Graduate Professional Index (GPI) published on Wednesday (April 22).
PPS, a mutual financial services company that focuses exclusively on graduate professionals, conducted an independent survey of 5,837 members at the beginning of 2019 to gauge their perceptions on a number of issues affecting their professions, both now and in the near future.
Graduate professionals working across the accounting, dental, engineering, legal, medical, pharmaceutical and other sectors were polled, and the findings of the survey shed light on the state of South African professionals.
While the majority of respondents (68%) felt confident about the future of their profession over the next five years – with accountants (86%) leading the pack – due to financial viability (35%) and regulations (23%) in their professions, many were concerned about political issues (43%) and economic conditions (27%).
“According to our survey’s results, South Africa’s skilled professionals – doctors, accountants, lawyers, engineers, corporate employees, and successful entrepreneurs – are giving more consideration towards emigrating due to their being qualified to do so and having the financial means,” said Motshabi Nomvete, head of technical marketing at PPS.
“This holds many implications of a professional migration trend on a developing nation.”
The majority of respondents (71%) would encourage matriculants to enter their respective professions, particularly accountants (89%), engineers (80%), ‘other’ professionals (79%), pharmacists (59%) and medical professionals (56%). The main reasons are that the skills are needed in SA (51%), and that the profession is personally rewarding (35%).
When asked about the state of youth employment, 36% of respondents thought this was a government problem which they must solve, and 30% believed that their professional associations were also looking for solutions.
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Absolutely, come this way. And of course they would want to leave, why be punished for being successful and white?
We can always use more doctors.
Lawyers, not so much.......................
And they already speak English!
Sorry. They are mostly the wrong shade.
Not really, you are just throwing our own professionals under the bus.
Who are the dummies who are staying?
re: “Doctors, engineers and other top professionals join the rush to leave South Africa”
Can you say “Venezuela II”
re: “Who are the dummies who are staying?”
The S-L-O-W ones.
And the pols, but, I repeat myself ...
Who is?
I do have one question. Are successful black South Africans accused of acting white?
This is what South Africa gets for backing Mandela (a communist), versus Buthelezi (a Christian).
Rhodesia comes to mind.
The not so covert genocidal war on whites (but NOT reported by the "media") in South Africa is apparently having an effect. Brings to mind - Haiti ran all the whites out. How are they doing?
Brain drain is not a good sign.
Been here since 78. The ones who stayed are either A) stupid or B) bleeding heart libs or A) and B). I hate to say it being a naturalized US citizen who was a SA citizen but we don’t need the professionals left. They have no excuse. Farmers on the other hand were tied to the land. Let them in.
I think of the Khmer Rouge Genocide in Cambodia. Where professionals were targeted and killed.
How is the current situation in South Africa any different?
Well the average IQ of all of Africa is 66. So socialism must be appealing to them.
If 66 is the average, I wonder how many people there are with IQ’s in the 40’s or 50’s.
I don’t know if I’ve ever met someone with an IQ that low. I wonder what it would be like?
Let me ask the oh so indelicate question.....what percentage looking to leave are White? What are the breakdowns of those looking to leave and those looking to stay among Black and White South Africans.
I think we all know what such a breakdown would show and we know why - the ongoing discrimination and violence against minority White South Africans and the country’s steady slide toward third world status.
MAPA: Make Africa Primitive Again!
But why would they leave such a ‘diverse’ country. Isn’t everything hunky dory there?
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