If you start raising your wages and improving working conditions, and continue to do so, eventually you’ll have people lining up around the block to work for you even if you need to have huge piles of steaming manure hand-scooped on a blazing summer afternoon.

Re: Shortage due to retirees: With the majority of retirement accounts down about 50% or more, people entering retirement age are being forced to work well into their sunset years. So, you won’t be getting a worker shortage anytime soon due to retirees exiting the workforce.

Okay, fine. Some specialized jobs require training and/or certification, again, raise your wages and improve benefits! You’ll incentivize people to self-fund their education so that they can enter the industry in a work-ready state. The attractive wages, working conditions and career prospects of technology during the 1980’s and 1990’s was a prime example of people’s willingness to fund their own education.

I couldn’t agree more with the writer of ‘Am I Still An African?’. History is so easily forgotten. The entire continent sacrifised the little resources they had just so the thugs of today’s South Africa can even claim to be South African. In my native country of Zambia, roads, bridges and buildings were bombed and destroyed because we offered support for the liberation of the nation. We even harboured the honorable freedom fighters rent free.

The South African authorities should rewrite the history books and include the true story of the struggle for the liberation of the nation. Maybe, and just maybe, the thugs and their off spring will look at an immigrant with a loving and brother eye.