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[TOP STORY] Immigration failures costing SA investment, jobs and vital economic momentum

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‘We actually turned away a Netflix series that was about to invest R400 million into South Africa and give much-needed encouragement to the film industry in South Africa. It left us and went to Mexico,’ says Candice Magen, CEO of Abroadscope.

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