Zimbabweans fleeing S.Africa attacks face bleak future
Harare (AFP) - Zimbabwean migrants who fled a wave of anti-foreigner violence in neighbouring South Africa arrived home Wednesday to the same bleak economic prospects that sent them abroad in the first place.
Visibly dejected as they stepped out of buses at Harare's main terminus, young working men and women with babies on their backs said their dreams had been destroyed by the attacks which killed seven people and displaced thousands.
"I don't know what to do next," said Wonder Nyamutowa, who worked as a construction worker in Durban, a major port city in Africa's most developed economy.
"I went to South Africa after being retrenched in 2012. I am a breadwinner and I could manage to send money back to my family but I won't go back."
Nyamutowa was among hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans who migrated to neighbouring South Africa when their country's economy went into free fall in the aftermath of a campaign of violent land invasions in the early 2000s. ...
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