Refugees in South Africa — a Forgotten People

Abstract

The movement of Mozambique’s war into the the rest of southern Africa has been both forceful and menacing. Mozambicans, in an attempt to survive, and to escape the fear that plagues their daily lives, have scattered not just through Mozambique, but across the region, taking with them the ravages of their country’s poverty. Mozambique’s economy, depressed and inaccessible because of the war, hinders the development of the region. The increasing frequency of direct Renamo incursions into neighbouring countries has also taken its toll.

The days darken round me and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1809–92