There is a risk of being picked up by the Zimbabwean police and tortured again, in the case of political deportees. 8. The dead: a problem for the future? Zimbabweans are dying in South Africa, possibly in large numbers, and not all of the dead are being repatriated for a variety of reasons. They end up in paupers’ graves, either in South Africa or in Beitbridge, depending where they die. These dead are undocumented and do not have death certificates in their names. This may cause practical problems for their Zimbabwean families in the years ahead. Single parents sometimes die and leave stateless, undocumented orphans, who may have relatives in Zimbabwe, but who these may be and how to reach them is not known. Families also need to know the fate of their loved ones abroad, yet the dead are sometimes becoming “disappeared persons”, without death certificates or known places of burial. This may cause emotional problems for families, who are left with unanswered questions about the fate of their relatives. There is a need to address this problem and find ways of ensuring that trusted persons or NGOs have ways of contacting relatives in Zimbabwe in such situations. 13