A video circulating on social media has shown Zimbabweans being driven away, taunted as “amakwerekwere” and harassed in South Africa reflecting the rising anti-immigration sentiment and intense Afrophobia, public hostility and populism by political parties using immigration issues to win support. The video below was shot at a company called Ortimo Gosforth in Germiston, South Africa.
This comes as South Africa has announced that it would not extend them beyond December 31.
Millions of Zimbabweans are living and working in South Africa the majority of which does not have the required documents.