By Rex Mphisa
AT least four Zimbabwean expectant returnees gave birth at Beitbridge this week with three of them delivering at the Beitbridge District Hospital while another conceived at the Social Welfare reception centre.
The three who delivered at the hospital were ferried to the institution after going into labour at the centre where thousands of assisted returnees are processed before being given Government funded transport to their respective homes.
Beitbridge District medical Officer Lenos Samhere confirmed the births at the hospital while an official at the centre where the media is banned confirmed the delivery which occured there.
“Yes we have has three deliveries rom returnees who were at the reception centre. They were brought in from there,” said Samhere in a brief interview..
All the four deliveries had no complications and the mothers and their new arrivals had all been discharged.
He one who delivered at the reception centre had been taken to the hospital for further management but all was well.
Returnees of every age, stature and condition have been squeezed out of South Africa after the June 30 March and March deadline arrived and passed.
Most have returned with nothing except the clothes they wore after running away from marauding vigilantes the SA Government failed to contain and is suspected to have been a silent partner.
One of the mothers said she had been forced out of a hospital in the Cape Town area and she was happy her child “was patient” to arrive after she crossed the border.
“God helped me and rhs child was patient and did not rush. I was chased from hospital in Cape town where they accused me of “crowding” them.
South Africans have accused black migrants from Africa of taking their jobs and have demonstrated against an estimated 2.4 to 3 million African migrants who worked in that country either legally or illegally.