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Article: Citizens turn on Zimbabwean migrants. (Countryfile: Botswana).
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- African Business
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- May 1, 2003
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The once friendly relations between Zimbabweans and Batswana is deteriorating by the day as economic hardships push an increasing number of Zimbabweans to seek work in Botswana. Rodrick Mukumbira reports from Gaborone.
Relations between the local Batswana and Zimbabweans living in Botswana have hit rock bottom following the influx into the country of economic refugees from Zimbabwe.
The worsening relations of these nationals from the two neighbouring countries first came to the fore mid-January following the deaths of two Zimbabweans and a Motswana, who were inmates at a maximum prison in Francistown, which is a town 500 kilometres north east of the ...