South Africa has long been a popular destination for emigrants from the ROC, with especially large numbers making their move in the mid-1980s through the early 1990s, but many of those who took advantage of investment incentives to establish businesses and manufacturing operations in South Africa have been very much affected by government policy shifts brought on by the changing political climate there.
我國到南非的移民潮，大約自一九八○年代中期到九○年初最盛，但早期以優惠投資進去的工商移民，許多都因為政治情況大變而受到影響，堅持本業而穩定成長的並不太多，而寶石城的莊英漢正是其中的佼佼者。