EconomySouth Africa’s textile industry in crisis after migrant workers flee

South Africa’s textile sector is confronting a workforce crisis after thousands of migrant workers left the country in recent months. Their departure followed violent xenophobic protests linked to the anti-immigrant group March and March. The campaign sought to open jobs for South Africans, one-third of whom are unemployed. Yet factory owners in Newcastle say they have still been unable to fill the vacancies left by foreign workers who fled.