By Alec Hogg
Inimitable former Oxford Don RW Johnson was in top form yesterday during our interview about Monday’s column for BizNews Premium. It’s worth a listen: click hereto listen to the podcast, or here to watch the interview.
Johnson pointed to continued differentiation by the Western Cape, which proves good governance – and its positive consequences – need not be an alien in SA. However, he reckons the penny is dropping among those who live elsewhere in the country and believes already strong semigration to the province has only just begun.
___STEADY_PAYWALL___While the Western Cape is now very much on the radar as an alternative for those in SA’s eight other provinces, so is the UK. Already described by the hundreds of thousands of Saffers living there as SA’s “tenth province,” post-Brexit immigration rules have made Britain an even bigger opportunity for more Southern Africans.
The in-depth piece by our partners at the Financial Times in London, provides lots of detail, including how 25 times more Zimbabweans (not a misprint) were granted UK work visas in 2023 compared with four years ago. SA is changing a lot faster than many believe. For the better, too.
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