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This is an update to part one of an ongoing assignment for Médecins Sans Frontières on the migration of refugees from impoverished Zimbabwe into South Africa. Photos Copyright ©2009 Austin Andrews / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Not to be reprinted or reproduced without permission.
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Under pressure from nearby business owners the City of Johannesburg has begun to move in on the Central Methodist Church, a downtown transit camp for over 5000 Zimbabwean refugees. On Tuesday workers erected an iron fence around its entrances in an effort to restrict the movement of refugees after dark, a gesture that Bishop Paul Verryn has condemned.
The church and Medecins Sans Frontieres are currently fighting a lawsuit that seeks to move their operations elsewhere.
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