The Effectiveness of South Africa’s Immigration Policy for Addressing Skills Shortages

South Africa is presently experiencing a serious shortage of skilledworkers. This situation is negatively influencing the economicprospects and global participation of the country. The primary purposeof the study was to determine the effectiveness of sa’s immigrationpolicy to support skills immigration. The outcome of this studyindicated that South Africa’s immigration policy is restrictive and hasundoubtedly influenced the shortage of skills in the country. This studyhas confirmed the findings of similar studies undertaken by the Centrefor Development and Enterprise that South Africa’s skills immigrationpolicy is very restrictive and is thus not helpful in addressing the skillsshortages of the country