Contents
Overview
A How many Zimbabweans are in South Africa
1. Independent researchers: how many Zimbabweans?
2. South African Government figures: how many Zimbabweans?
B. A puzzling absence of social policy
1. “It’s not a ‘migration’ policy failure, it’s a ‘poverty alleviation’ policy failure”
2. Epidemic outbreak, Musina 2008/9 – an example of poor social policy
3. Legal necessity for a policy
4. Good intentions here and there
5. Migrants: a drain or a resource?
C. Border control, documentation and policing of Zimbabweans
1. Border control versus border management
2. Deportations
3. Documentation
i. Undocumented Zimbabweans: ASPs – an inappropriate
ad hoc measure
ii. Zimbabweans with passports: 90‐day working visa on entry
iii. Special dispensation under Section 31 (2) b
4. Migrants and policing
D. Life of Zimbabweans in Central Johannesburg
1. Chambers building – evictions and shocking conditions
E. The Central Methodist Mission – haven or monstrosity?
F. Attacking the ambulance: chronicle of events at the CMM
G. Albert Street School
H. Downtown: Alternatives to CMM – and the World Cup clean up
1. The Moth Hall: a band‐aid on a gaping wound?
2. Regeneration of downtown Johannesburg and the 2010
World Football Cup: the impact on migrants
3. The WFC and street vending
4. After the World Cup?
J. Zimbabwean migrant workers displaced by xenophobia in De Doorns, Western Cape
1. Overview
2. Causes
3. Support to displaced
4. The future
Case Study One: De Doorns Displaced
1. Methodology
2. Summary of main demographic findings
a. Documentation
b. Age, marital status and children
3. De Doorns: working conditions
c. Murambatsvina victims
4. Where to next?
5. Conclusion
Case Study Two: Unaccompanied minors in Johannesburg
1. Methodology
2. Demographic information
a. Gender and age
b. Province of origin
3. Circumstances in Zimbabwe
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