Some have good memories of their years in South Africa.
Zimbabweans who have returned to their old country after working and studying for years in South Africa are battling to rebuild their lives.
Munda sought asylum in South Africa. He worked in Yeoville selling fresh flowers. He learned flower cutting, arranging and marketing his blooms. But now he sells second-hand bags, joining the informal traders who line the dusty road that leads to the Bindura terminus in Harare.Business picks up during the tobacco and cotton trading season, when the farmers come to town, flush with money to do some shopping.
Darkness Muchemwa, who works for a printing shop in Johannesburg, moved his wife and two children to Chitungwiza in June because of xenophobic tensions in South Africa. He is paying $110 per month for the two rooms he is renting. “Unlike in the old days when government schools were free in Zimbabwe,” he said, “learners are paying an equivalent of $30 per term at public day schools.”
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