critical skills survey

On 29 May 2025, the Department of Employment and Labour published South Africa’s White Paper on the National Labour Migration Policy. The document outlines government’s official approach to managing cross-border labour mobility and sets the framework for how foreign skills will be accessed in the future.

Almost 80% of multinational and large corporations in South Africa experience an ongoing struggle to recruit critically skilled individuals, highlighting the severity of the talent shortage and its impact on business development, says Marisa Jacobs, Managing Director at the immigration specialist Xpatweb.

South Africa risks shutting the door to sought-after global professionals by not allowing direct employment access to their accompanying partners or spouses.

South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs presented a series of sweeping enhancements to its Trusted Employer Scheme (TES), a move set to dramatically modernise the country’s corporate immigration landscape.

The Department of Home Affairs (DHA) is working against the clock to have a dedicated online portal ready where any person who have automatically lost their South African citizenship after October 1995 when they acquired a second nationality, can lodge a case to confirm their SA citizenship reinstatement from anywhere in the world.