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South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by SecuritybriefNg(op): 11:15pm On Jul 01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7evxVdlMBU
South African Company Seeks Skilled Workers After Foreign Employees Reportedly Leave

A South African company has publicly announced vacancies for experienced machine operators and several other skilled positions after foreign employees reportedly left the company following pressure linked to anti-foreigner sentiments.

The recruitment notice has reignited discussions about the impact of labor shortages on businesses and the broader South African economy. While many citizens continue to call for more employment opportunities for locals, some observers argue that replacing experienced workers is not always immediate, especially in specialized technical roles.

Critics say the situation highlights the need for practical workforce planning that balances local job creation with the demand for skilled labor. Others maintain that South Africans should be given priority, provided they receive the necessary training to fill these positions.

The development has generated mixed reactions on social media, with many debating whether the departure of skilled foreign workers could affect productivity and business operations.

As the conversation continues, attention remains on how companies and policymakers will address both unemployment and the country's ongoing demand for skilled workers.

Watch the video ABOVE for more details and share your thoughts in the comments.
Let's Discuss About This.

Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by CodeTemplar: 11:33pm On Jul 01
They will adapt. It is time africans go back home and fix some things. Paul Biya is 92. Half the leaders are either dictators or imposed.
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by Mariangeles(f): 11:58pm On Jul 01
With time, they will adjust. Or are they truly lazy?

I heard when Ghanaians left, Nigerians took up the businesses they did.

Make everybody go answer their papa name.
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by insidelife22(m): 11:58pm On Jul 01
If @randdigital fail to buy a car and build a duplex one month from Today after foreigners left his turf, then shame on him.
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by helinues: 12:07am On Jul 02
They should employ themselves and stop crying profusely

South Africans are yet to know what's about to hit them. By the time they start having food shortage, the missing senses would likely be located.

Funnily, they have no other African countries to turn to, not even their neighbors
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by helinues: 12:08am On Jul 02
Ask those who went to the street claiming Africa migrants are taking their jobs to take up the available positions.

No foreigners will risk his lives to come to the Afrophobic country
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by motymop: 12:12am On Jul 02
why are you lying

they are calling on south africans to apply for the jobs.

One thing i dont understand about Nigerians calling south african lazy is you really think they are lazy

like the population is about 64 million people and you think all the 64 millions are lazy...anybody that thinks like that is an olodo
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by helinues: 12:16am On Jul 02
motymop:
why are you lying

they are calling on south africans to apply for the jobs.

One thing i dont understand about Nigerians calling south african lazy is you really think they are lazy

like the population is about 64 million people and you think all the 64 millions are lazy...anybody that thinks like that is an olodo
Is inability to comprehend also part of the issue you people have in South Africa? Where in epistle did you read about foreigners are asked to apply for this job?

If the mothers and fathers of the South Africans can be leading the protest, what else do you expect from their children. The lazy ness is now becoming generational in SA
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by motymop: 12:41am On Jul 02
helinues:
Is inability to comprehend also part of the issue you people have in South Africa? Where in epistle did you read about foreigners are asked to apply for this job?

If the mothers and fathers of the South Africans can be leading the protest, what else do you expect from their children. The lazy ness is now becoming generational in SA
You actually lack the ability to comprehend

Aren't you reading the click bait title

The fact that you think south Africans are lazy shows that you actually lack basic skills of critical thinking.

I support that they should deport all illegals.

They sell drugs and cause lot of violence on the streets

If Nigerians are really hardworking then Nigeria won't be like the way it is
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by helinues: 1:18am On Jul 02
motymop:
You actually lack the ability to comprehend

Aren't you reading the click bait title

The fact that you think south Africans are lazy shows that you actually lack basic skills of critical thinking.

I support that they should deport all illegals.

They sell drugs and cause lot of violence on the streets

If Nigerians are really hardworking then Nigeria won't be like the way it is
Stop sounding slow. How did those drugs and arms get into South Africa when they have custom and immigration?

Some years ago, South Africa was leading the deadly gang in the world, are those gang members Nigerians?

Was it the Nigerians that killed Lucky Dube, AKa?

The Nkabi, hired assassin's who are all over South Africans, are they also Nigerians or African migrants
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by MarketDispatch: 4:15am On Jul 02
Mariangeles:
With time, they will adjust. Or are they truly lazy?

I heard when Ghanaians left, Nigerians took up the businesses they did.

Make everybody go answer their papa name.
When Ghanians left, education sector in Nigeria took a nose dive ..do your research
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by Gotocourt: 4:24am On Jul 02
This is going to affect the economy just like when buhari came in 2015, it became worse with tinubu in 2023.
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by Mariangeles(f): 6:14am On Jul 02
MarketDispatch:
When Ghanians left, education sector in Nigeria took a nose dive ..do your research
So, what is your point?

We should've kept depending on Ghana for "better education"?

Did Nigerians stop getting educated after they left?
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by helinues: 6:46am On Jul 02
motymop:
You often lack limited knowledge of anything

How are arms and drugs getting into Nigeria even with customs and immigrations

How are bandits kidnapping even with the police and military.

Fyi, Nigerian cultists and gang are all over the place even outside Nigeria selling drugs and killing each other like they do in Nigeria

In Italy it got worst that they had to enforce the Mafia law on them and got everyone arrested.

Nigerians are known criminals and it is a disgrace that you can not do any business dealings with a Nigerian and sleep well.
You and I know that.

Lastly, Nigerians have called African Americans lazy, South Africans lazy and even ghanians lazy but the most funny stuff is that they live in a shit hole
So who is Nigeria blaming for the arms and ammunition in the country? The foreignners? Are you even aware that reasonable of the arms getting to Nigeria are from South Africa.

Stop ITK on something you have little knowledge about
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by motymop: 10:38am On Jul 02
helinues:
So who is Nigeria blaming for the arms and ammunition in the country? The foreignners? Are you even aware that reasonable of the arms getting to Nigeria are from South Africa.

Stop ITK on something you have little knowledge about
Are you telling me that you don't blame fulanis and igbos for everything that is wrong

You see them as foreigners... keep your house in order before pointing fingers outside

You always look faraway, the Chinese, the Indians, Lebanese are taking over your farm lands, polluting your waters because of mining because you lack a basic sense of nationalism, soon you will be slave in your own land.

You claim all the arms coming into Nigeria are from south Africa, now I know your are ignorant

All the arms coming into Nigeria are from the sahel, from the niger- libya route.

Let me burst your bubble, many of the Nigerians you all receive from libya, some of them are ghetto bosses in libya, selling your fellow Nigerians into slavery, some of them know how to handle arms

Since your country have no bio metrics, you allow them back into society and allow them go home to cause havoc

The same way you are allowing those repatriated from south Africa to just join society with even investigating them.
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by Fiscus105(m):
motymop:
why are you lying

they are calling on south africans to apply for the jobs.

One thing i dont understand about Nigerians calling south african lazy is you really think they are lazy

like the population is about 64 million people and you think all the 64 millions are lazy...anybody that thinks like that is an olodo
Did they ready to do hard jobs that require excruciating pains?

Have you asked yourself why and how foreigners took those jobs in first instance?
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by showboy2301: 10:56am On Jul 02
I still don't know why south Africa is trending on Nigerian platform, do they want to take away our platform?😁
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by SecuritybriefNg(op): 10:58am On Jul 02

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7evxVdlMBU
Mariangeles:
With time, they will adjust. Or are they truly lazy?

I heard when Ghanaians left, Nigerians took up the businesses they did.

Make everybody go answer their papa name.
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by Kingpele(m): 10:58am On Jul 02
Kia i now clearly understand that minority of citizens of South Africa who are not lazy and gainfully employed can never be in support of vast majority of lazy citizens who blames every foreigner for their poverty and hardship...but unfortunately the majority of the sick ones among them is damaging the image of South Africa
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by Dogalmighty17: 10:58am On Jul 02
That's a large format printer and also a monogramming machine. In other words, a printing press. Any slack jawed neanderthal can be trained in less than a week to operate them. It is boring and monotonous work. No wonder the lazy south Africans don't want to do them.
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by berryPee(m): 11:01am On Jul 02
All immigrants should goo bek to their kantri and leave our jairbs for us to handle.
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by RandDigital: 11:02am On Jul 02
Should be arrested for employing illegal migrants to begin with.
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by jpphilips(m): 11:03am On Jul 02
Apparently, some southie Jokers didn't learn from Zimbabwe!!
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by nairalanda1(m): 11:05am On Jul 02
Fiscus105:
Did they ready to do hard jobs that require excruciating pains?

Have you asked yourself why foreigners took it in first instance?
You have a point there...same point was made in the USA when trump was enforcing immigration laws.
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by Tammy2705: 11:08am On Jul 02
make dem take there jobs no be because of these job dem wan kill man pikin cry
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by AntiChristian: 11:08am On Jul 02
Olodo/Agbero uprising everywhere!
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by Katell: 11:09am On Jul 02
Why is south african news making the frontpage back to back ? Let their news be with them. This is nairaland not zululand
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by boxypane: 11:09am On Jul 02
Train the ones their now. Skilled workers have gone beck to their cantry.
Re: South African Company Cries Out For Skilled Workers As Foreign Employees Depart by edogu(m): 11:10am On Jul 02
South Africans want to be employed without skills. That's not possible.
I remember watching an interview between a white employer and some protesters. They asked him why he was employing immigrants instead of South Africans. His response was simple: the immigrants had the skills needed for the job. The protesters then told him he should train them instead. See entitlement mentality. grin
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