Bulawayo — A long, white luxury coach with 48 passengers on board crawls out of its parking depot, destined for Johannesburg, South Africa. The passengers face an overnight journey with lengthy border queues and temperamental immigration officials. Philani Moyo, 25, dreads the wait, but he's more anxious about something else - his personal safety for the duration of his three-week visit to South Africa.
Moyo is unsure of what to expect following the recent spate of xenophobic attacks in Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal that killed at least seven Africans, including a brutally decapitated Zimbabwean woman. He told The Daily Vox that on this visit, he would need to be cautious.
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