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What Sectors Are Experiencing Labor Shortages Due to Return Migration from South Africa to Lesotho and Eswatini?

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When Our Neighbours Stop Coming: Return Migration and Sectoral Labour Gaps in South Africa Opening: A Startling Case and the Context In early 2021, during South Africa’s Covid‑19 lockdown, around 100,000 labour migrants returned from South Africa to Lesotho. Many had worked in low‑skilled sectors such as domestic work, construction, mining, and agriculture (lesotho.un.org). Of […]

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