Strangling the Lifeline: An Analysis of Remittance Flows from South Africa to Zimbabwe

Author:
PASSOP
Publisher:
PASSOP
Publication Date:
11 April 2012
Tags:
Zimbabwe, Governance, Human Rights, Legal and Judicial Affairs, Migration, Refugees and Displacement

It has been estimated that close to three million Zimbabweans have emigrated over the past
decade, roughly two thirds of these to South Africa. The money and goods they send home,
known as ‘remittances’, are relied on in Zimbabwe to sustain the livelihoods of up to two thirds
of the population.

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