At the Central Methodist Church in Johannesburg, hundreds of Zimbabwean refugees gather each evening for prayer. South Africa’s services have been severely strained. Benedicte Kurzen/EVENo Respite For Refugees In Sth Africa -- The Australian
AS night falls, they slowly emerge from the shadows: dozens of children clothed in rags, with desperate eyes sunk deep into haunted faces, suddenly crowd the streets of Musina, a ramshackle South African town on the border with Zimbabwe.
Boys and girls as young as eight crawl out of rubbish-strewn pipes and filthy flood drains. Some come from human nests built within the thick foliage of wild hedges. Others appear from the bottom of dank alleyways, and still more from the crevices of abandoned buildings.
Night brings some respite for Zimbabwe's lost generation, thousands of children who tried to escape hunger, poverty and disease in their homeland by seeking a better life in South Africa.
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My Comment: And this is probably just the tip of the iceberg.