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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by TMWNN on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @12:23AM (#33702321)
>As someone who grew up and went to uni in SA, then later emigrated to NZ (and later Europe)

My understanding is that NZ is the usual gateway for South African emigrants, who use it to get to their final destination (usually Australia).

(Canada serves a similar function for those seeking to move to the US.)

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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by herodoturtle on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @02:15AM (#33702995)
> My understanding is that NZ is the usual gateway for South African emigrants

Historically the top destinations have been Australia, UK, US, and New Zealand - in that order [0].

Anecdotally, many of our friends are also moving to The Netherlands, so I suspect that a more recent survey would reflect that.

And within South Africa, there is also large scale "semigration" taking place from folks outside the Western Cape province to inside it (because the aforementioned province is arguably the best run in the country).

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20180202090200/https://businesst...

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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by TMWNN on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @05:10AM (#33704090)
>Historically the top destinations have been Australia, UK, US, and New Zealand - in that order

Sorry, I meant "usual gateway for South African emigrants who can't get into Australia directly". I am aware that Australia is the #1 destination.

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Re:South Africa's national electricity crisis to worsen by herodoturtle on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @11:06AM (#33707241)
I see what you mean :-)
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