SADC's secret shame: Embers of forgotten conflicts

Friday, September 20, 2019

The Nambian refugees during a previous pretest at SADC. PIC: THALEFANG CHARLES

By yesterday afternoon, about 250 Namibians had been repatriated to their motherland. Another 2,000 or so of their fellow countrymen together with Zimbabweans and Congolese remain at Dukwi Refugee Camp, like children seeking shelter in a neighbours' house. Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI writes.

The trucks that sped out of the Dukwi Refugee Camp on Tuesday and Thursday transporting hundreds of Namibians to their motherland also carried two other things.

One was the fear of refugees returning to an uncertain future, a homeland they left in conflict 20 years ago, fleeing to safety through crocodile infested waters in Chobe District to Dukwi.

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SADC's secret shame: Embers of forgotten conflicts

By yesterday afternoon, about 250 Namibians had been repatriated to their motherland. Another 2,000 or so of their fellow countrymen together with Zimbabweans and Congolese remain at Dukwi Refugee Camp, like children seeking shelter in a neighbours' house. Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI writes.

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