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document.write("<h5>Maybe it is because....</h5>");
document.write("...they all live in the UK and elsewhere. Toopax");
document.write("<h5>Accountants</h5>");
document.write("Yes we are and quite happy about it!. Dave");
document.write("<h5>colour again</h5>");
document.write("it is not very clear: the BIG problem is the shortage of black professional accountants, or generally? as Toopax and Dave have said, we all know where the professional accountants are, they gave up and went to UK, or they are sun tanning in Perth, maybe they go black enough to come back and fit the vacancies. Sipho (formerly known as John). ");
document.write("<h5>Sense of Humour....?</h5>");
document.write("An accountant with a sense of humour...? Really?. Bruce");
document.write("<h5>CA's(SA) in the Middle East</h5>");
document.write("Actually it is not only the UK and Australia that attracts South African Chartered Accountants.  I have lived in Bahrain (4 years), San Francisco (15 months), Saudi Arabia (4 years) and now Dubai (from July 2006) since I left South Africa when I qualified in 1996.  There are many accountants in the Middle East earning a lot more than what we could earn back in South Africa.  A lot of accountants, I suspect, are very happy living in the Middle East and plan to work here for the rest of their careers.  Regards from sunny Dubai.. Charles A");
document.write("<h5>Definitely because...</h5>");
document.write("... we all live somewhere else. Of my year there are all of 5 left in SA.  I also have to friends finishing up their community service as Doctors who are coming to join us.  It will happen to all qualified vocations until their is nothing left.  Welcome to the brain drain - glad you could make it! . ");
document.write("<h5>CA's</h5>");
document.write("Canada is not too bad either.  These countries pick up our professionals with decent salaries, proper crime control, no colour discrimination, excetera. I am in the medical field and my son is a CA. We will be leaving soon.  . Barry");
document.write("<h5>22 000 accountants needed</h5>");
document.write("I challenge iafrica to verify and address the following flaws:<br /><br />1. SAICA is only but one of the players in the accountancy industry and<br />what ever they say will be focussed on empired building and raising<br />barriers for other players.<br />2. IRBA is supposed to be an independent organisation yet they are allowed<br />to set the FQE 2 exams for SAICA and to date they have only accredited<br />SAICA only: why?<br />3. There are other equally competent organisation which are at the same<br />level as CA SA namely: CIMA, ACCA and other CAs from other countries;<br />these guys are meant to help with addressing the problem at hand yet no<br />one talks to the:<br />In the UK where the CA Brand comes from, there are six organisations under<br />the CCAB that work together to sort out shortages yet in South Africa<br />there is only one organisation which is the player and the referree. Accountant");
document.write("<h5>22 000 accountants needed</h5>");
document.write("It took SAICA 50+ years for them to come up with the + or - 27,000 CAs they have and surely South Africa does not have 50 more years to worst waiting for SAICA and on the other hand SAICA would not want to lower their standards just to get the numbers. I have great respect for SAICA but at such a time like this, the focus should not be on individual accountancy bodies but on working together to alliviate the problem.. Accountant");
document.write("<h5>22000 accountants</h5>");
document.write("how about employing the white accountants that can not be employed because of the colour of their skin...........<br />MARCH ON AA!!!!! - REAP WHAT YOU SOW!!  -  Accountant!. Danielle");
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