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White South Africans no longer packing for Perth

Source: Katharine Child Times Live, 24/07/2015

The great white flight appears to be a fallacy.
Numbers released by Stats SA yesterday show that over a 30-year period
the country experienced a net loss of only 650,000 white
people.

What this means is that, taking into account the number of white
people returning, over 500,000 have left permanently.

This figure, released in the stats agency's mid-year 2015 population
estimates, is just over 10% of the current white population.

The number of whites thought to have left between 2011 and last year
is 95,158, just over 2% of the current population.

"In numbers it is not so high," SA Institute of Race Relations
researcher Thuthukani Ndebele said.

"What was really needed is an estimate of how many skilled people
emigrated. This would indicate if white emigration is to be worried
about."

But South Africa stopped collecting data on people leaving and
entering the country in 2003, when the Immigration Act came into
effect.

Solidarity researcher Paul Kruger said issues like crime led to white
people feeling unwelcome , "but how many leave as a result is unclear".

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