How To Build A South Africa Worth Staying For

South Africans have been leaving in significant numbers since 1994, when fear and uncertainty over what the future might look like in “the new South Africa” had thousands “packing for Perth.”
People leave the countries of their birth all the time, for multiple reasons. It’s seldom a decision taken lightly, and even those who leave as refugees, forced from their homes through life-threatening conflict, do so with heavy hearts, while still holding onto a fierce, if faint, hope that one day, they might return.
South Africa, somehow, feels different. We aren’t technically at war, but we are without doubt a conflicted country.

Exact numbers are hard to come by, but estimates say between 1.15 and 1.55 million South Africans have emigrated in the past 30 years.
Although this so-called Brain Drain slowed towards the end of the millennium, the past few years have seen it slowly creeping up again.

Skilled South Africans are seemingly always looking for ways to escape the very real challenges of rampant crime, an unstable electricity supply, declining public service delivery and economic uncertainty, among others.

And yet, there are many others who are staying put, determined to build a country people want to live in.

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