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Even domestic workers are leaving South Africa | SA News

Malcolm Libera
 ·18 Aug 2025

Domestic workers in South Africa are following other professions and looking for better pay and job opportunities overseas. 

This is due to South Africa’s worsening unemployment rate, which has particularly affected domestic workers since Covid-19.

Several experts have recently highlighted that many South African professionals have emigrated due to stagnant salaries and poor work opportunities in South Africa. 

At the end of last year, Canadian immigration expert Nicholas Avramis noted that almost 8,000 South Africans had…

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