'20% of Afrikaners have left SA' - Here's why...
More Afrikaners are choosing to leave South Africa and seek refugee status in the US. According to the Solidarity Movement, the migration of white South Africans has been an ongoing occurrence over a lack of employment opportunities.
Last week, a second batch of the minority group left the country under the resettlement plan.
Thousands more are expected to follow them.
According to Solidarity Movement spokesperson Jaco Kleynhans, up to 8 000 white Afrikaners will take up refugee status in the US over the coming weeks.
However, thousands more have left before them.
He posted on his X account: '20% of Afrikaners have already left the country permanently or temporarily because they could not find work here. The white unemployment rate is completely skewed.
'Hundreds of thousands of Afrikaners have been pushed out of the formal labor market and have started their own businesses or emigrated.
Like Kleynhans, many white South Africans believe 'race laws' harm their chances of employment.
Jaco Kleynhans's claims about the white population – which includes Afrikaners – fall in line with statistics.
According to a 2022 census, white South Africans made up 7.3% of the total population, which is about 4.5 million people. Of that, around 3 million are Afrikaners.
Over the years, reports indicate the following decline in the white population 2011 – 9%
2016 – 8,1 %
2021 – 7,8 %
Although stats reveal a dip in unemployment, the Commission for Employment Equity noted that white people still occupy 62,1% of top management level posts while Black people occupied 13.8%
According to many recruitment agencies, many Afrikaners immigrate to other countries for farm work opportunities abroad.
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