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Zimbabwe being absorbed by South Africa

The UN refugee agencies and the SA government all just keep ignoring the legal rights of Zimbabwean refugees – alas, the Zimbabwe-tsunami shows no sign of slowing down any time soon…

Zimbabwer is murder these days - sign at SA border postZimbabweans vote with their feet and fleeing to SA... December 5 2009 – JOHANNESBURG. The Forced Migration Studies Programme of the University of Witwatersrand finds that the humanitarian crises facing Zimbabwe's diaspora is creating even more waves of migration into South Africa

Essentially, the vast majority of Zimbabweans are voting with their feet against their dictatorship  --  which moreover seems powerless or unwilling to stop the growing Zimbabwe-tsunami into South Africa.

 

 South Africa now has for all practical purposes, also absorbed Zimbabwe as just another new province…just as it did with Swaziland and Lesotho: it’s just not official yet…

Zimbabwe for all intents and purposes, now already operates as just another province of South Africa, just like Swaziland and Lesotho, Zimbabwe now also uses SA’s entire banking system, its currency, its communications- transportaton- and electricity networks --  and the vast majority of all these southern-African citizens now live, work, are being educated in, and are being fed and housed inside South Africa.

4,5-million South African taxpayers now also have to prop up all these untaxed Zimbabweans:

There’s only one major problem: Zimbabweans don’t have any rights nor do they pay any taxes into the South African coffers which would justify their living in the country --  and the UN-HCR only provides shelters in ‘xenophobia’ emergencies while still persistently refusing the acknowledge the refugee-status of Zimbabweans.  Meanwhile, SA’s still-shrinking band of 4,5-million taxpayers now suddenly finds that it also has to provide housing, food, educational- and health facilities for millions of exiled Zimbabweans. And black South Africans are growing increasingly irate at the fact that they now have to compete for jobs, housing, food and health-care facilities with these highly-motivated, often much better-educated Zimbabweans. Their anger frequently explodes into ‘xenophobic violence’.

Zimbabwe dollars have become so useless that the SA Rand now is the currency of choice thereIt all started from 2003, when then-president Thabo Mbeki threw open the borders and withdrew the defence force from patrolling it…  http://www.migration.org.za/ download their report: http://us-cdn.creamermedia.co.za/assets/articles/attachments/24919_zim_migration_into_southern_africa_nov_09.pdf

Last year, Amnesty International also warned that the United Nations should step in and provide much stronger leadership to deal with the human rights issues of these many millions of starving, homeless and displaced refugees in South Africa. There is a thundering silence from the ANC-elitist who runs the UNHCR office in Pretoria: no attempt had been made to properly process these arrivals at the borders into UN-run and –paid for refugee camps and none of these desperate Zimbabwean families are given any documentation nor any refugee-status under the existing UN-statutes.

And South Africa has also ignored the entire problem – it only seems interested in ‘controlling’ the illegality of these refugees inside their own country, while ignoring the powerful sociological (left) and long-term economic impact their presence has on the rest of South Africa.

 

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 Black South African youths can’t compete with better-educated Zimbabweans…’

Picture below: Poor black South Africans, kept uneducated through years of ANC boycotting the so-called ‘Bantu- education’ during apartheid, now are forced to compete with the better-educated Zimbabwean refugees for food, jobs, housing, educational and health facilities,  and housing in the country’s thousands of squatter-cities. The tensions between the two communities are rising more each year. If the South African government and the UN-HCR fail to create legal platforms for these Zimbabwean exiles, South Africa could be facing decades of social unrest over the ‘Zimbabwean issue’.

AntiZimbabwean Riots in South Africa increase again in Nov 2009

Other sources:

ANC propaganda against ‘Bantu-education’ kept black SA youths uneducated:

Xenophobic outbreaks target Zimbabwean squatter camps in Western Cape 2009

UN-HCR in Pretoria ignores plight of millions of African refugees

Africa's hungry millions overwhelm South Africa

Hell Hole prisons of Zimbabwe

ANC minister threatens 'land reform like Zimbabwe''

Nestle won't buy more milk from Grace Mugabe’s farms

Farms of fear – Sunday Times London

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