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Nutmegger

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Mon Nov-12-07 07:09 PM
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Zimbabwean dies queuing for visa

Edited on Mon Nov-12-07 07:09 PM by Nutmegger

Source: BBC News

A Zimbabwean job-seeker who collapsed and died in Cape Town last week, is said to have succumbed to starvation.

Adonis Musati, 23, was a police officer in Chimanimani in eastern Zimbabwe, but the economic crisis led him to South Africa to try to support his family.

He had spent a month at the Home Affairs Refugee Centre, trying to get a work permit, reportedly with nothing to eat, sleeping in a cardboard box.

His family said they had learned of Adonis's death on the internet.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7090730.stm

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maddezmom

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Mon Nov-12-07 07:11 PM
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1. beyond words

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hlthe2b

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Mon Nov-12-07 07:18 PM
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2. Sadly, it can and probably will start to happen here...

All signs point...and I doubt many of us are totally secure in Bush economy.

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Sen. Walter Sobchak

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Mon Nov-12-07 07:19 PM
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3. There are almost 3 million refugees from Zimbabwe in South Africa

Edited on Mon Nov-12-07 07:20 PM by policypunk

and South Africa just doesn't have the resources to deal with them, there are a further 600,000 refugees elsewhere.
Unfortunately until Robert Mugabe and his Rhodesian bag men are run out of Zimbabwe the crisis will continue.

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Xipe Totec

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Mon Nov-12-07 08:00 PM
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4. He died for his belief in the rule of law and following proper procedures

We should all be proud.

:sarcasm:

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