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Zimmigration and the World Cup

In yet another angle on the Zimbabwe crisis and the relationship between Zim and South Africa, The Mail & Guardian reports that skilled and semi-skilled construction workers are flooding from Zimbabwe to work on jobs building facilities for the 2010 World Cup. The deluge seems less problematic for South Africa, as despite its own unemployment problems skilled workers are always a rare commodity, than for Zimbabwe, which is hemmhoraging yet another segment of the economy that it can ill afford to lose but cannot afford to keep.