Legal Guardians are required to produce two affidavits from both parents, a certified copy of birth certificates and Copy of IDs from both parents.
A frustrated parent told The Zimbabwean that her child had been turned away despite having the required documents.
‘“They told my 17-year-old son that they needed an accompanying person as he was a minor. My son was stranded and lonely. The authorities at the border should put mechanisms in place to ensure that these children are safe”.
“I am now going to Zimbabwe so that I can travel with him back to SA,” said Mavis Njere from Cape Town.
A guardian who was also refused entry said: “Money and time has been wasted. This experience is traumatizing. I was accompanying my sister’s daughter to SA but we were turned away as we only had an affidavit from the mother.
Children could be seen loitering at the boarder looking for alternative transport home.
According to the United States Trafficking in Person 2011 report, Zimbabwe is a source, transit and destination country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of forced labour and sexual exploitation in South Africa, Botswana and European countries.
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