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A Gift from Zimbabwe
Apr. 5th, 2008 11:37 pmI recently wrote a long post with some thoughts about Zimbabwe. Some people wondered why I am so interested about Zimbabwe. Well there are several reasons - a general one, a professional one and now a personal one.
The "general" reason is that I live in Johannesburg which is just a couple of hundred kilometers away from the South African - Zimbabwean border. The situation in Zimbabwe is very desperate. I already explained it in the previous post. So most of the people who flee the country every day are choosing South Africa as their destination. The situation on the border is very complicated and also the situation with the illegal Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa is very similar to that of the illegal Mexican immigrants to USA. They are exploited by their new employers, they are underpaid and live in terrible conditions without a way out. Some people call this a new form of slavery by blacks on blacks in a country which is still trying to bring itself together in reconciliation after the Apartheid.
( The rest of my story )
The "general" reason is that I live in Johannesburg which is just a couple of hundred kilometers away from the South African - Zimbabwean border. The situation in Zimbabwe is very desperate. I already explained it in the previous post. So most of the people who flee the country every day are choosing South Africa as their destination. The situation on the border is very complicated and also the situation with the illegal Zimbabwean refugees in South Africa is very similar to that of the illegal Mexican immigrants to USA. They are exploited by their new employers, they are underpaid and live in terrible conditions without a way out. Some people call this a new form of slavery by blacks on blacks in a country which is still trying to bring itself together in reconciliation after the Apartheid.
( The rest of my story )
