political instability and crime were their motivation to migrate<\/a>, pointing out South Africa had been a democratic country since the end of apartheid, and white families were continuing to operate there.<\/p>\n“South Africans also leave South Africa to come to New Zealand to come to go to England and other parts of the world just as much as New Zealand does also live New Zealand to go to other parts of the world,” he said. “So people are rotating around the world. And that is the main reason why people move.<\/p>\n
“But now we don’t agree with people who come who leave South Africa for those reasons, and when they arrive in the host country then they bash their country. That is not right, because we are aware that there are some South Africans that come to New Zealand and go to other countries and start lying about the conditions in South Africa and start lying that they ran away from South Africa because they are being killed, because they are being targeted for their race, that is lies, and that is not true.”<\/p>\n
The majority of people would stay in South Africa or return there eventually, he added.<\/p>\n
“It’s just a fraction of those kind of people that have left South Africa, the majority of South Africans are still there, the majority of white South Africans are still there.<\/p>\n
“And we’ve got now figures – we know that some of those who left because they were angry with with the end of apartheid, they were angry when Nelson Mandela became president and they started leaving the country – they are coming back to South Africa, some of them, because life abroad and life in South Africa is not the same. And they do miss a lot of things that South Africa offers.”<\/p>\n
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