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Draft labour migration policy: a litmus test following the SONA

In my previous column (see FW, 11 March), I commended President Cyril Ramaphosa’s pragmatic approach to supporting business and creating an enabling environment for businesses to grow the economy in his 2022 State of the Nation Address (SONA).

However, I did caution that policy is not only made at the top level of government, and that the message was as much an appeal to

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