One fourth of the city’s 1,500 German-Jewish immigrants are gainfully occupied in their own businesses and employ some 600 native South Africans, it was revealed today by the Johannesburg Evening Star.
The Star has been conducting an independent investigation on the question of absorption of German-Jewish refugees into South African economic life, to refute charges that the immigrants were competing in local labor market.
The investigation also disclosed that 32 per cent of the immigrants living here are craftsmen and that the remainder have also adapted themselves “most usefully for South Africa’s interests.”
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