Being a Zimbabwean living in South Africa

Hi and welcome on board!

I hope other members will be able to help you soon!

Regards
Kyrie

Hi Edeline!

Welcome on board

Armand

Hi guys

How can I put my question more out there, i need people to respond more for my paper?

Hi Kyrie,

It's a pity I got here so late. But Edeline is right. I actually find that Zimbabwean society in the diaspora is the least homogenous of all. You get Nigerians hanging out together at the same places and tending to occuppy the same strata in South African society. You find communities of Croatians, Greeks, Portuguese that meet formally and support each other such that you wont find the poor among them. We are very fragmented and selfish, so even when this cruel society despises the poor among us, the rest of us are bust looking out for ourselves, and earning more money by looking good to our clients and bosses is our primary occupation. I think what we miss is the kind of vision that European settlers had when they came. They planned for the long haul, and their descendants have benefited. We seem to be very short term in our thinking and ignore the fact that we can actually make Zimbabwean society in the diaspora less diverse economically so that more of us are in positions of influence and wealth despite the odds.