PHOTOGRAPHS
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Cover photo:
Razor wire on the border between Zimbabwe and South Africa
Photos 2 and 3:
Woman and man brutally assaulted by army in Zimbabwe
during the mass stay away called by the MDC in March 2003.
Photo 4:
Tonderai Machiridza, an MDC activist tortured in the custody
of Zimbabwean police. He died of his injuries the day after
this picture was taken, on Independence Day, 18 April 2003.
Nobody has ever been held accountable for his murder.
Photos 5 and 6:
Supporters of MDC assaulted with knives, screw drivers and
barbed wire on 17 January 2002, ahead of the Presidential election.
Photo 7:
Samuel Khumalo, a trade unionist, seeks medical assistance
after being tortured in police custody, in November 2003.
This same unionist was arrested again in October 2004.
Photo 8:
An estimated 500 Zimbabweans wait outside the Johannesburg
refugee reception office on a Tuesday in October 2003, hoping for
asylum seeker papers. Only 5 accessed the office on this Tuesday,
a fairly normal weekly intake of Zimbabweans.
Photo 9:
Minutes after the previous picture was taken, Home Affairs
guards started an unprovoked attack on the Zimbabweans,
whipping them with sjamboks.
Photo 10:
October 2004 - a year later in Rosettenville: the RRO is now
accessed down an un-signposted alley. The same long queues of
Zimbabweans are there, still mostly failing to access the office.
Photo 11:
Zimbabweans join other vagrants on the streets of Johannesburg
in the bitter cold of a winter’s night. Here a woman is roused
for a cup of soup from the Methodist church, July 2004.
Photo 12:
A Zimbabwean exile with two children receives food aid from
the Methodist church in Johannesburg: July 2004.
Photo 13:
A Zimbabwean deportee escapes from the shadow of the deportation
train that he has just leapt from: destination for him is now
no longer Beitbridge, but Johannesburg.
Photo 14:
This Zimbabwean was one of four who died after being detained in
Lindela in October this year.
Photos 15 and 16:
Zimbabwean deportees are herded on to a deportation train in
Johannesburg, September 2003.
Photo 17:
Zimbabweans wait to be deported at Lindela
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