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Nezaum Joseph is the Executive Director at the Department of Economic Development in the Western Cape government, where over 60 firms are based. The Ministry was one of the first supporters of the sector, said Mr Joseph.

About six years ago, it began offering high-quality firms in the province of South Africa Rand per month, as part of a training program that supports approximately 4,500 people a year. It means that about 80% of those people have been employed by the same firms for some time.

Mr JOSEPH says that more than 70,000 people are now employed in Cape Town to carry out the needs that are exported by overseas companies. “We added about 10,000 jobs last year, and another 10,000 consolidation jobs this year. Fifteen years ago, we had less than 2,000 jobs.”

UK-based Acconcy Firm Cooper Porry is the only British firm to have completed a South African operation. It turned to South African Exportfing Financial Firms Maskosi and PKF Octagon to fill hundreds of roles during the 19 pandemic.

Gemma Edward, a partner at Cooper Parry and its Head of transformation and business services, said the company was very impressed by its South African partners who recently opened their office in the country. This now has 60 team members, including both Mr DYWILI and Mr Wheeler.

Ms Edwards says the South African workforce “has been augmented by our UK teams”. He adds: “They join the same calls as us … they are not the same and we – we are a group from another country.”

The strong ventrica of the UK center, which works with brands such as the shoemaker clark, the fashion chain look and mcdonald’s, around 30% of its staff are now based there, with plans to increase this to 40%.

Ventric’s CEO Iain Banks says some of his clients are happy with the operation of the facilities they use to be based in South Africa, while others believe their business is safe remaining in the UK.

“For example, there is FMCG [fast-moving consumer goods] Brand We go with it, “said Mr. Banks.” And if I started a conversation about South Africa, they’d be in the door right away. “

That could change though, as many highly educated South Africans enter the industry. That is certainly what Mr Joseph thinks, as the Western Cape government plans to work closely with universities to make courses better suited to employers working in the industry.

But Jeve – van der Linde, Cape Town’s chief economist, is concerned that, despite those ambitions, South Africa’s education system will not be able to keep up with the growth of the emerging sector, in terms of size and importance in the country.

“The quality of education, from a social perspective, is one of the biggest obstacles to the South African economy, and a major reason for the skills shortage we have in South Africa,” he said.

He is also aware that not all opportunities in South Africa’s future industry are distributed equally across the country. While many jobs can be done remotely, unstable internet connections in rural areas can rule this out.

“South Africa is a very big country,” added Mr van der Linde. “You have your big hubs like Johannesburg and Durban, but there are spaces where different groups have controlled different provinces. Some have a business-friendly mindset.

“With those different factors, it’s natural that you might end up with an imbalance in terms of how the import industry can affect unemployment across the country.”

However, if the Western Cape Humerion’s Comvern’s Communcloursen Prouty proves to be successful, it will not only mean more jobs, but it is likely to increase wages, too. So what’s going on there for all the companies that depend on South African spending?

They will look ahead to the other side of Africa, predicted Ventric’s Mnumr Banks, who said that the industries that are indicators are from Keopiya, Ethiopia, Ghana and Nigeria.

“It started with India as the first place to avoid,” Mr Banks said. “After that it went to the Philippines, and now South Africa is going up. But South Africa will reach its exit point, and the industry needs to find another place,” said Mr. Banks.

But for now, Mr Dywili says the opportunities in the sector in South Africa provide a stark, but refreshing, hope for the youth in the country.

He says: “Young people have felt confused about the limited opportunities we have had here in South Africa,” he said. Mr. Dywili adds that choosing to get degrees such as accounting provides a way to work in the foreign industry.