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    Zimbabwe: Children follow shoppers to South Africa

    Musina: Zimbabwean children are being drawn to South Africa to run errands and perform piecemeal jobs for shoppers from their own country - who are heading south because of the unavailability of basic goods in their own country.
    A security guard moves on a child migrant from Zimbabwe in the South African border town of Musina. Taurai Maduna ©
    A security guard moves on a child migrant from Zimbabwe in the South African border town of Musina. Taurai Maduna ©

    The South African border town of Musina has become a shopper's paradise for Zimbabweans; these days there appear to be more vehicles with Zimbabwean registration plates than there are with South African ones. The town is also a regional trucking hub.

    The collapse of Zimbabwe's economy, with annual inflation officially estimated at 2,2m percent, has turned Musina into a boom town.

    "Don't worry mkoma [brother] I will look after your car, your small boy is here," a boy shouts to the Zimbabwean driver who has parked his car outside the supermarket.

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