Zimbabwe: High costs hinder traveling to South Africa

Prosper Ndlovu, trainee reporter for Zicora Mobile Network in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe (6 January 2012) -Zimbabweans living and working in South Africa are stranded. Most of the travellers had come for the festive season to their families and cannot return to South Africa for lack of proper travel documents and high transit costs.

'We now have to sell some of our appliances in order to top up our travelling fees as what we had budgeted for is now too little', said Mkhayiphi Ndlovu, a stranded Zimbabwean.

The Zimbabwean government is in the process of negotiating with South Africa about the regularization of documentation for Zimbabweans in South Africa, a move which will see most of them working and living legally in South Africa.