Johannesburg – A survey conducted among over 1 500 South African students has revealed that 54 percent of the respondents plan to move abroad for work purposes in the next five years following their graduation.
The 2016 PPS Student Confidence Index (SCI) was conducted among students in their fourth-year or above, studying at a university or university of technology towards a profession-specific degree, such as engineering, medicine, law or accounting.
Students answered questionnaires online, face-to-face on campus, and via focus groups.
Technical marketing specialist at PPS, Motshabi Nomvethe, in a statement said a possible reason why students were inclined to move abroad following their graduation could be the current economic environment and the gloomy outlook for employment in South Africa.
“The latest figures from the Stats SA Labour Force Survey indicate that an estimated 26.7 percent of South Africa’s population are unemployed. These figures could motivate students to seek employment opportunities abroad,” Nomvethe said.
Nomvethe said while it was not good news that more than half of South Africa’s future professionals were planning to work overseas, they should be encouraged to return back to the country once they had acquired international expertise and plough their knowledge back into the local economy.
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Client Alert – Nigeria – New Directive on Temporary Work Permit 6th May 2016
Background
The new Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service (”NIS”)
whose appointment took effect from 15th May, 2016 has issued a directive
to the effect that companies in the oil and gas sector must provide evidence of registration with the Nigeria Content and Development Management Board,(“NCDMB”) before a Temporary Work Permit (“TWP”) cablegram is issued.
Companies that also undertake engineering related projects are to be registered with the Council for the Regulations of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), before a TWP cablegram is issued.
The directive is to ensure that companies in the oil and gas industry are compliant with the federal government’s local content policy as well as forestall abuse of the TWP visa in the oil and gas industry.
Visas/Permits affected
TWP holders
What Companies and Foreign Nationals need to Know!
Companies affected should ensure that the necessary approvals are procured from the (“NCDMB”) and (“COREN”) before an application for a TWP visa is made.
For more information on updates please contact immigration@relocationafrica.com – ask for Cassandra Weir.
Chinese Signs in the Ethiopian Highlands
Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, is the hub for much of the airborne travel in Africa. Ethiopian Airlines flies across the continent, carrying many of Africa’s travelers via the city’s small but comfortable airport. Aside from the usual assortment of foreigners – backpackers on their way to safaris, mid-level managers of commodity firms and a few diplomats – the demographic of the airport’s transit population says much about the state of the continent’s political economy.
The airport is also notable for its sheer inconvenience. A veteran expat in West Africa– an American manager at a mechanical equipment firm – explains the hassle to get from Congo to Nigeria, both of which are west of Ethiopia. The only other option, instead of transiting at Addis, is to take a local Nigerian flight, which he dismisses as “having a decent probability of falling out of the sky.” So what should be a journey of just a few hours becomes a day-long one, including hours of sitting around at Addis.
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Most SA students eye overseas jobs after graduation
Johannesburg – A survey conducted among over 1 500 South African students has revealed that 54 percent of the respondents plan to move abroad for work purposes in the next five years following their graduation.
The 2016 PPS Student Confidence Index (SCI) was conducted among students in their fourth-year or above, studying at a university or university of technology towards a profession-specific degree, such as engineering, medicine, law or accounting.
Students answered questionnaires online, face-to-face on campus, and via focus groups.
Technical marketing specialist at PPS, Motshabi Nomvethe, in a statement said a possible reason why students were inclined to move abroad following their graduation could be the current economic environment and the gloomy outlook for employment in South Africa.
“The latest figures from the Stats SA Labour Force Survey indicate that an estimated 26.7 percent of South Africa’s population are unemployed. These figures could motivate students to seek employment opportunities abroad,” Nomvethe said.
Nomvethe said while it was not good news that more than half of South Africa’s future professionals were planning to work overseas, they should be encouraged to return back to the country once they had acquired international expertise and plough their knowledge back into the local economy.
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Inside the Ugandan Mall at the Center of China’s East African Investments
This article appeared in the May issue of VICE magazine. Click HERE to subscribe.
Mariam Namata’s face was dappled with sweat when she arrived for a job interview at Sunshine Foods, a company that claimed to be Uganda’s first homemade chips manufacturer. It was October 2015, a fierce summer month in the country’s capital, Kampala, and she was nervous. The company’s Chinese boss sat where he conducted most of his business, at one end of a row of four chairs that had been welded together, near a trash can that contained cigarette stubs.
Namata, a 24-year-old woman with a delicate nose and bleached curls, took the seat next to him and introduced herself in Mandarin. She explained that she had studied international finance at Shenyang University, in the northeastern Chinese province of Liaoning, and asked if he had grown used to eating matoke, an East African dish of steamed green bananas.
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