/ 19 March 2022

Labour migration policy hopes to ease jobs bloodbath

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Quotas: A new labour migration policy, which is open for comment, seeks to limit how many mainly low-skilled foreigners work in South Africa. Photo: Roberto Schmidt/AFP

But unions believe the state lacks the will and capacity to enforce existing labour laws

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