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    SOUTH AFRICA: Zimbabwe's Exiled Community Struggles in South Africa 

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    VOA News
    Published on 15th July 2011 04:55 PM
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    Nico Colombant | Johannesburg


    Zimbabwe's growing exile community in South Africa is struggling with many issues, such as bureaucratic hassles, losing their rights in their home country and a lack of opportunities in their new country.

    There is shouting and jostling, as hundreds of Zimbabweans wait inside the compound of South Africa's Department of Home Affairs in an attempt to get or renew ...

    SOUTH AFRICA: Illegal immigrants buy registered SIM cards 

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    BuaNews
    Published on 12th July 2011 07:32 PM

    By Siphiwe Nyathi

    Mbombela - Illegal immigrants in Mpumalanga's capital of Mbombela are turning to South African citizens who let them use their registered SIM cards to keep in touch with their families.

    Hundreds of these foreign nationals, especially Zimbabweans and Mozambicans, were cut off since July 1 in ...

    SOUTH AFRICA: Deportation threat for undocumented Zimbabweans 

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    IRIN
    Published on 7th July 2011 03:47 PM
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    JOHANNESBURG, 6 July 2011 (IRIN) - With just weeks to go before a 27-month moratorium on deporting Zimbabweans living illegally in South Africa expires, the authorities are scrambling to complete a documentation process that will still leave hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans lacking the necessary permits to avoid arrest.



    The number of Zimbabweans who have fled the political ...

    SOUTHERN AFRICA: The effect of migration on HIV rates 

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    Admin
    Published on 14th September 2007 07:38 AM

    FRANCISTOWN , 12 September 2007 (IRIN) - Trying to measure the impact of the Zimbabwean exodus on HIV/AIDS rates in the region is so fraught with ifs, buts and maybes that the only reasonable assumption is that, like other migrants, economic migrants may run a higher risk of infection than they would have if they had not left their homes.

    The scale of Zimbabwean migration to neighbouring states is disputed, with estimates ranging from more than three million people to a few hundred thousand, making an overall assessment of the actual spike ...

    BOTSWANA: IOM to open centre for undocumented Zim migrants 

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    Published on 5th September 2007 08:09 PM

    MUSINA, 4 September 2007 (IRIN) - The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) is establishing a second reception centre in Zimbabwe to provide a 'soft landing' for undocumented Zimbabwean migrants being deported from neighbouring countries.

    Last year 38,000 Zimbabweans were repatriated from Botswana to Zimbabwe. Earlier this year President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF government requested the IOM to assist in setting up the country's second reception centre, in the Matabeleland town of Plumtree ...

    SOUTH AFRICA-ZIMBABWE: Report dismisses "human tsunami of migrants" claim 

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    Published on 5th September 2007 08:04 PM

    MUSINA , 5 September 2007 (IRIN) - It is being called the largest displacement of people outside of a war zone since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, but a new report is dismissing claims of a 'human tsunami' of undocumented Zimbabwean migrants arriving in South Africa as an "exaggeration".

    The report, 'Fact or Fiction? Examining cross-border migration into South Africa', by the Forced Migration Studies Programme at Johannesburg's University of the Witwatersrand and the Musina Legal Advice Office, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) ...