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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail More Yahoo! Services Account Options New User? Sign Up Sign In Help Yahoo! Search web search Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Asia Pacific World For Zimbabwe's deportees, shame at empty-handed return AFP - Sunday, October 25 Send IM Story Print Zimbabweans deported from Botswana wait at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) center at the Plumtree border post. The center feeds the deportees and provides them with transport to their homes. A year after Zimbabwe's three main political parties signed a power sharing deal, Zimbabweans are still skipping in search of better lives in neighbouring countries. PLUMTREE, Zimbabwe (AFP) - – Onias was 16 years old when he ran away from his home in rural Zimbabwe. Schools were shuttered and his village had run out of food. But after his mother died, leaving him an orphan, he set out on his own. So he borrowed some money from a friend and made his way to the border with Botswana some 250 kilometres (150 miles) away, slipping across unnoticed at once of the many rural crossing points. He made it as far as Francistown, Botswana's second city located near the border, where he spent months doing odd gardening jobs until police stopped him last month. "The police stopped me on my way home. They said, 'We need to see your passport'. But I didn't have a passport," Onias said. Onias is among the average 110 Zimbabweans deported by Botswana every day, a small fraction of the 100,000 Zimbabweans believed living illegally in the country, according a report by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Like most of the deportees, he simply can't afford a passport, which costs 143 US dollars, slightly less than Zimbabwe's per capita gross domestic product last year which was 200 dollars. The UN's International Organisation for Migration (IOM) runs a centre just inside the Zimbabwean border, where Botswana authorities take the deportees in clean white trucks. Some have little more than the clothes they're wearing, but others unload an astonishing cache of plasma televisions, kitchen appliances and overstuffed sacks of clothing -- whatever the authorities would allow them to pack. IOM gives them a meal, medical care if needed, a place to spend the night, and helps them organise transportation to their homes in Zimbabwe. Minors like Onias are given an escort for their trip home, explained Andrew Gethi, who manages the centre. Since Zimbabwe's unity government took office in February, the numbers of deportees have dropped sharply, down from a peak of 237 a day in January, Gethi said. Traffic across the border generally has slowed, as Zimbabwe's economy has stabilised with the abandoning of the local currency, left worthless after years of hyperinflation. Shops that were empty last year have re-stocked while import restrictions have eased, meaning Zimbabweans can again buy food locally. "The number of cross-border traders has dropped, because goods are locally available again," Gethi said, adding that tens of thousands of Zimbabweans still cross the border legally every month. Botswana's migration problem is small compared to the estimated 1.2 million Zimbabweans living in South Africa, but has an outsized effect on a nation with only 1.9 million people. The exiles are among the at least two million Zimbabweans who have fled their country's daily hardships, forming a lifeline to their families back home. Since Harare abandoned its local currency, remittances from relatives abroad is one of the only ways rural Zimbabweans can receive the foreign currency now needed to survive. For that reason, the overwhelming sentiment among the deportees is the painful shame that they can no longer provide for their families. "I left everything in Botswana. I was working as a hair stylist, and now I've come back empty-handed," said a woman who gave her name only as Molly. She was arrested in eastern Botswana town of Serowe, but said her family in Zimbabwe would never learn of her deportation. "I have to go back to my business," she said. Botswana spends more than any country in the region except South Africa on deportations, about 285,000 dollars a month, according to the UNHCR study. But South Africa this year stopped deporting Zimbabweans after changing its immigration laws to grant them 90-day, renewable visas that allow them to take jobs. Botswana's labour ministry said last month that authorities were also considering changes to its policy of arresting and deporting illegal migrants, but no new proposals have been announced. Meanwhile, many of the deportees say they will just slip across the 800-kilometre (500-mile) border. 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