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SA Home Affairs minister`s plea to foreign students

Source: Swaziland Observer, 20/10/2015

Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba asked foreign students studying in
South Africa to stay on after graduation.

"We want to make it easy and straightforward to those students who are
interested in staying in South Africa after graduating to do so. We
are developing proposals in this regard which we will announce soon‚"
he said in a prepared speech to an International Students Dialogue on
International Migration in Johannesburg recently.

Explaining his invitation for foreign students to live in SA‚ he said:
"No country can produce all of the skills it needs… Skilled immigrants
make an important contribution in destination economies.

"International students are especially advantageous as their
qualifications have been obtained here in South Africa and are thus
able to transition seamlessly into their chosen fields‚" Gigaba
said.

Pledging to ensure efficiency in the issuing of study visas‚ he said:
"We want South Africa to be at the top of list of destinations for
prospective students across Africa and the world."

Gigaba also asked delegates to share the biggest challenges they are
facing as international students in SA.

"When you work for Home Affairs you quickly develop a thick skin‚ you
don`t need to worry about our feelings. We want to hear your concerns‚
your criticisms and your aspirations."

Gigaba proposed that the conference address nation building and social
cohesion in SA as part of its discussions.

"We are a young country in a young continent‚ in the most dynamic
period of political‚ economic and social change humanity has ever known.
"Where previously our discourse on what has been called the `national
question`‚ was about uniting Africans‚ coloureds‚ Indians and whites‚
it now must expand to include visitors to our country and new South
Africans from all over the African continent and world.

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