Huge exodus from Eastern Cape
Census shows about 1.6-million people left province in past decade for Western Cape and Gauteng in search of better life
People are leaving the Eastern Cape in droves to search for a better life while the province’s unemployment rate rises.
The Eastern Cape had experienced the largest outflow of people, with more than a million having moved to the Western Cape in the past decade in search of jobs...
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