Scaring off the skilled

In a previous blog entry I remarked that our political leaders seem to be hell-bent on scaring off the very people who have the skills to keep this place running. There are migration consultants who visit Durban every month to service their clients but now we’ve gone a step further. I see an advert in the today’s Mercury, August 20, 2008, which announces that the government of Western Australia is visiting us next month to provide seminars and interviews for people considering packing for Perth. Scary huh?