WATCH | Zimbabwe braces for 1.4 million people returning from SA
Zimbabweans are among many migrants who are leaving South Africa in their numbers as the drive to eliminate undocumented and illegal immigrants from the country continues.
Black News 
With over 100,000 people already back home, the government of Zimbabwe is bracing for over 1.4 million more people expected to return from South Africa.
In the wake of the repatriations of illegal foreigners in South Africa, many of whom are from neighbouring Zimbabwe, tens of thousands on illegal foreigners from Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Malawi, have already left South Africa.
Many more are awaiting assistance from their governments to return back home, opting to camp outside the embassies of their home countries.
According to nehandaradio.com, Zimbabwe’s Public Works Minister Daniel Garwe estimate that more than two million Zimbabweans are believed to be living in South Africa.
According WorldOmeter, the population of Zimbabwe currently stands at 17.2 million people.
“Zimbabwe has raised the bar in terms of repatriating people. Initially we were dealing with numbers around 700 to 1,500 people per day. We expect these numbers to increase, but we will not tire because these are Zimbabweans that are coming home,” Bulawayo.com reports Garwe as saying.
“We have got in excess of about two million Zimbabweans in South Africa and we are hoping 70 percent of that two million is coming home and we are ready to receive them.”
