a. Reasons for leaving Zimbabwe
b. Parents: alive or dead
c. Possible care giver back home in Zimbabwe
d. Last contact with Zimbabwe
4. The journey
a. Violence on the journey
b. How long did it take you to get from home to the CMM?
c. Length of time in border area
d. Bribes and payments
e. Deportations
f. The border crossing
5. Johannesburg
a. Length of time in Johannesburg
b. Current Caretaker
Conclusion
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Index of Charts
Chart i: showing legal status of Zimbabweans at De Doorns
Chart ii: showing travelling time to De Doorns
Chart iii: showing where minor children are now
Chart iv: showing who is looking after minor children now
Chart v: showing field of work in Zimbabwe, prior to leaving
Chart vi: showing weekly earnings in De Doorns
Chart vii : length of time spent in South Africa
Chart viii: showing Zimbabweans who intend staying in South Africa beyond April
Chart ix: showing number of children at each age
Chart x: showing reasons given by minors for leaving Zimbabwe
Chart xi: showing whether parents alive or dead
Chart xii: showing possible primary caretaker in Zimbabwe
Chart xiii: showing when last in touch with Zimbabwe
Chart xiv: showing violence experienced by children on their travels
Chart xv: showing length of time taken from home to the CMM
Chart xvi: showing who the children paid or bribed on their travels
Chart xvii: showing how the children crossed the border post
Chart xiix: showing length of time child has been in Johannesburg
Chart xix: showing who is perceived as a caregiver now
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Index of Photographs
Cover photo: Blind Zimbabwean in the room he shares with other blind friends
In central Johannesburg.
Photo 2:
Going nowhere? Stairwell, of ‘China City’, home to hundreds
of Zimbabweans in central Johannesburg
Photo 3:
‘We do funerals’ – big business in central Johannesburg
is exporting dead migrants: March 2010
Photo 4:
A Zimbabwean considers his life, central Johannesburg
Photo 5:
China Square building, where hundreds of Zimbabweans share
rooms, often 2 to a bed, 10 to a room: March 2010.
Photo 6:
Midnight at midday – life in Chambers building: March 2010
Photo 7:
Garbage spews out of the edges of this building where
Zimbabweans live: March 2010
Photo 8:
A Zimbabwean cooks his midday meal by the light of one candle:
noonday sunlight does not reach inside the rooms of Chambers.
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