Zims in SA rush to return home as deal is signed

 

“I am sure this could be my last trip to Johannesburg to buy food. I believe food shortages will be water under the bridge. Shortage of basic commodities will be the thing of the past, I mean history. I am safely saying goodbye South Africa,” said Mandla Khumalo of Tshabalala, Bulawayo.

 

Previous Takavarasha of Masvingo, who was boarding Pioneer Luxury Bus at Park Station says:  “I do not have money yet, but I am going back home to start a new future. I am was a refugee at Methodist Central for two years now, and I do not have to wait for Morgan Tsvangirai to announce that some of us who were on police wanted list have been freed.  If they wish to arrest me, then let it be so, but I am in this bus going back to my motherland,” said Takavarasha.

 

About 200 Zimbabwe refugees and asylum seekers boarded buses in front of a CAJ News crew on Monday, returning to Zimbabwe. Some just went without enough cash for transport, convincing the bus drivers that they would pay upon arrival.

 

“Yes, I nearly forced them to disembark, but my manager allowed these five passengers in hoping they will stick to their word and pay for transport upon arrival, said the driver.

 

Morale was high throughout Park Station and the surrounding areas of Braamfontein, Hillbrow, Yeoville and Berea.

 

The signing of the power-sharing deal is expected to end the eight-year economic meltdown, inflation of above 11.2 million percent, unemployment, shortage of basic commodities and fuel, company closures and political violence. – CAJ News