South Africans line up for jobs after exodus of foreign workers

Thousands of foreigners have left South Africa. Some of them were repatriated by their countries. Others used their own money to get out. So, assuming that a lot of these foreigners had some kind of employment, i.e. they were working somewhere, that means those factories and companies where they used to work, there are now vacancies. South Africans who have been unemployed, some of them say for years, are now applying to get some of those jobs. They're lining up here, they're filling out forms, and they hope that after filling out these forms, the forms will be taken to the various companies, and maybe they'll get jobs. As the others are chasing these foreigners away, at the end of the day, there is a space, there's a vacuum on business now. So, we have to fit in now and say, our people must continue to work as they're supposed to, and must not be exploited because all the employers were employing foreigners because of their exploitation. According to South Africa's government, there are more than three million immigrants in the country. Those are the ones that are documented. No one knows how many don't have papers in the country because they aren't in the system. Most foreigners come from countries from Southern Africa like Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi. When they get to this country, they stay in these informal areas, many of them, because it's cheaper. But here, they compete with the locals for scarce resources, such as jobs. Now, these attacks on foreigners happen every couple of years, usually just before elections. And while thousands of foreigners have left South Africa, many of them are saying they're not going anywhere.