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South Africans: a history of exile
PART THREE:
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THE REVOLVING DOOR
Crossing the border
The river – crocodiles and floods
Human predators: “maguma guma” and the SANDF
Life in the big cities: Johannesburg and Durban
Johannesburg: political exiles
Johannesburg: a community of the blind
Cross border traders
Musina: life in a small border town
Farm workers
Unaccompanied minors
Sex workers
Access to social services
Deportation
Asylum seekers
Bribes
Lindela deportation centre
Deaths in Lindela – detaining of the very ill
The deportation train
Deportation from Musina – holding conditions
Police approach to deportees in Musina
Deportation of unaccompanied minors
Deportation of parents without their children
Back in Zimbabwe: the deportees on arrival
The revolving door
Problems of the repatriated in Beitbridge
The ill
Deaths
Political exiles: risks on deportation
The Dead: a problem for the future?
APPENDICES
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Appendix Three:
Appendix Four:
Case examples of Zimbabweans in South Africa
Botswana and the Zimbabweans
Questionnaires
Bibliography
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