Photograph 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: this is a fairly normal weekly intake of Zimbabweans. Photograph 9: minutes after the previous picture was taken, Home Affairs guards started an unprovoked attack on the Zimbabweans, whipping them with sjamboks. Photograph 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. 44

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