Unfortunately, South Africa has been experiencing massive brain drain for about the last twenty years.

In important fields, such as engineering or health care, migration statistics show a net loss in highly qualified, economically active inhabitants.

This has led to the South African government encouraging foreign nationals to fill the available positions. So it is no wonder that South Africa has numerous expatriate communities of overseas residents.

While the official figures for the census 2011 have not yet been published, some of the larger foreign communities living abroad in South Africa include British, Chinese, and Dutch citizens, but also Germans, Indians, and US Americans.

The major cities have their own infrastructure of clubs and networks to cater to expats in South Africa, from a German beerhall in Cape Town over the French library of Johannesburg to online portals for expatriates around the Cape.

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