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29-08-2007, 08:37 AM
Does any of this sound familiar?
In today's news :
Minister speaks out on influx of Zimbabweans (http://www.702.co.za/news/news.asp#73235)28/08/2007 18:07:07
Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula says Zimbabweans fleeing economic meltdown in their country may be given temporary residence in South Africa.
She says this one of the options being considered to deal with the huge numbers of Zimbabweans entering the country.
Mapisa-Nqakula says new ways have to be found to accommodate the influx, which are putting enormous pressure on Home Affairs refugee centres.
I think the reason they are doing this is that they can begin some
kind of database on the refugees as at the moment they are
giving birth to Babies that are not even being registered.
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Other related articles :
As many as (http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/&articleid=261745)60 Zimbabwean border jumpers could have drowned in the flooded Limpopo River last week, Zimbabwe's Herald newspaper reported on Thursday.
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Massive inflation (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/24/africa/AF-GEN-South-Africa-Zimbabwe-Refugees.php), food and fuel shortages and a crackdown on political opposition to President Robert Mugabe's regime have sent Zimbabweans fleeing by the thousands, leading to mounting concerns that the region will be swamped with destitute refugees
Recently Zambian immigration authorities reported that the number of Zimbabweans crossing into Zambia at the southern border city of Livingstone had risen from 60 to 1,000 people per day, and that they feared the influx threatened security.
While there are few reliable figures on the number of economic migrants crossing through South Africa's borders, estimates consistently refer to 3 million Zimbabweans living in South Africa.
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The continued (http://www.afrol.com/articles/26262)political and economic morass looming in Zimbabwe has become a burden on the neighbouring countries, especially South Africa, where Zimbabweans refugees flee in their thousands. No official figure has been published on the rate of illegal influx of Zimbabweans to South Africa, but officials of the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) said 1,000 refugees flee to the country on a day basis at a single farm in Limpopo province.
"Yesterday, the DA concluded a visit to the Beit Bridge border post and discovered that, on one farm alone, around 1000 new refugees are fleeing illegally into South Africa every day," Mark Lowe, the Home Affairs Spokesman of DA, said.
In today's news :
Minister speaks out on influx of Zimbabweans (http://www.702.co.za/news/news.asp#73235)28/08/2007 18:07:07
Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula says Zimbabweans fleeing economic meltdown in their country may be given temporary residence in South Africa.
She says this one of the options being considered to deal with the huge numbers of Zimbabweans entering the country.
Mapisa-Nqakula says new ways have to be found to accommodate the influx, which are putting enormous pressure on Home Affairs refugee centres.
I think the reason they are doing this is that they can begin some
kind of database on the refugees as at the moment they are
giving birth to Babies that are not even being registered.
- - - -
Other related articles :
As many as (http://www.mg.co.za/articlepage.aspx?area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__africa/&articleid=261745)60 Zimbabwean border jumpers could have drowned in the flooded Limpopo River last week, Zimbabwe's Herald newspaper reported on Thursday.
- - - - -
Massive inflation (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/24/africa/AF-GEN-South-Africa-Zimbabwe-Refugees.php), food and fuel shortages and a crackdown on political opposition to President Robert Mugabe's regime have sent Zimbabweans fleeing by the thousands, leading to mounting concerns that the region will be swamped with destitute refugees
Recently Zambian immigration authorities reported that the number of Zimbabweans crossing into Zambia at the southern border city of Livingstone had risen from 60 to 1,000 people per day, and that they feared the influx threatened security.
While there are few reliable figures on the number of economic migrants crossing through South Africa's borders, estimates consistently refer to 3 million Zimbabweans living in South Africa.
- - - - -
The continued (http://www.afrol.com/articles/26262)political and economic morass looming in Zimbabwe has become a burden on the neighbouring countries, especially South Africa, where Zimbabweans refugees flee in their thousands. No official figure has been published on the rate of illegal influx of Zimbabweans to South Africa, but officials of the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) said 1,000 refugees flee to the country on a day basis at a single farm in Limpopo province.
"Yesterday, the DA concluded a visit to the Beit Bridge border post and discovered that, on one farm alone, around 1000 new refugees are fleeing illegally into South Africa every day," Mark Lowe, the Home Affairs Spokesman of DA, said.