EconomySouth Africa’s textile industry hit by crisis after migrant worker exodus

South Africa’s textile sector is struggling with a severe workforce shortage after thousands of migrant workers left the country over recent months. Their departure followed violent xenophobic protests linked to a campaign by the anti-immigrant group March and March. The group sought to open jobs for South Africans, one-third of whom are unemployed. Factory owners in Newcastle say they still have not managed to replace the foreign workers who fled.

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