Critical Skills

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.

Role players in the immigration industry have welcomed the Department of Home Affairs’ (DHA) Smart ID rollout for naturalised citizens and permanent residents who, up to now, had to rely on the outdated green bar-coded ID books – leaving them vulnerable to the risk of fraud.