Alex Tkachenko, 45, who sent out résumés to U.S. John Deere dealers in 2011, joined Palm’s Scottsbluff-based 21st-Century Equipment as export manager 11 years before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. More recently, 29-year-old Michael Henwick permanently left South Africa in 2020 to rejoin Schiff Farms, Scott Schiff’s multicounty farm and ranch operation based northeast of Minatare. They’re generally white Afrikaners, whose ancestors controlled political power in Black-majority South Africa until the nation’s apartheid system of racial segregation ended in 1994. “There isn’t opportunity there like there is here.”He obtained in 2014 his first in a series of H-2A visas, returning to South Africa each winter. He was driving near Alliance when he suddenly spotted a man he knew from South Africa.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 19, 2023 10:38 UTC