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Original Post Date: 2004-01-21 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 1/21/2004 9:21:06 AM
S.Africa: More Black Professionals leave the country
[Note. This is interesting and true. When whites go overseas to work and come back, they are much more sought after than those who stayed here all along. Now black professionals are doing the same. It is kinda funny that fewer of those blacks are coming back. Obviously life in the Western “white” countries is good!! Jan]
Black professionals are leaving the country to compete with the overseas qualifications of many returned exiles, according to a recruitment company.
“The former political exile community has been punting their overseas qualifications and work experience… This has created the perception that employers give preference to people with international experience”, said Brian Khumalo, a recruitment executive.
Khumalo, who is a senior partner of a large South African executive recruitment company, Leaders Unlimited Korn/Ferry, said
this perception of inferiority was fuelling the outflow of skilled black professionals.
“Local blacks are now trying to emulate them (the returned exiles),” he said.
This in itself was not a problem, said Khumalo, but growing numbers of these black professionals were not coming back.
Other African countries were in similar situations, said Khumalo.
“Countries like South Africa and Nigeria train large numbers of highly skilled professionals, many of whom are deliberately poached by countries in Europe and the United States.”
The presidents of South Africa and Nigeria, Thabo Mbeki and Olusegun Obasanjo, met recently to discuss ways of encouraging Africans – scientists, engineers, technologists, managers, who are working outside the continent – to return home, said Khumalo.
“We desperately need the input and expertise of these men and women to help grow the economy and to create jobs for the more than one million unemployed people in South Africa.”
However, he admitted that it was a “chicken and egg situation”.
South Africa needed a strong vibrant economy to create the demand for skilled professionals, however, a strong human resource base would lead to more investment in the country.
“Do you invest first, and have skills come after, or do you enhance your skills base, and have investment follow the skills,”
he said.
While likely to raise the hackles of trade unions, who already believe that executives are too highly paid, Khumalo said that
executive salaries needed to be internationally competitive.
“The most highly-skilled workers tended to relocate for higher wages, or better opportunities for development. They move so that they can develop, that is a natural thing,” said Khumalo.
“An employee is hardly going to look for greener pastures when he or she is paid appropriately and treated well in their home country,” he said.
“It is imperative that employers invest in their workers to prevent them from leaving the country.”
He said that while social conditions were also a causative factor in this “African diaspora”, the government was taking effective steps to improve this situation.
Sapa
Source: BusinessDay
URL: http://www.businessday.co.za/bday/content/dir…br>