Africa: Broken Promises, Shattered Hopes – – the Plight of African Climate Migrants Seeking Work in ‘Wealthier’ SA
Climate refugees who abandon drying agricultural lands in frontier countries and head to South Africa to seek new livelihoods are encountering crushing hardship in this country. ‘Crop yield, livestock failed. That’s why we came to South Africa confident of a fresh start,” says Joshua Tuso (41), an undocumented migrant from Zimbabwe. But “it has been…