00:01He is back home, but not in the way he imagined.
00:05Tekshon Yawo, a Zimbabwean citizen, is one of thousands of migrant workers
00:10who returned to their home countries in haste after facing violent anti-immigrant sentiment in South Africa.
00:17For many, the return has been anything but simple.
00:22It is very hard for me right now.
00:24When we wake up, we just go out, do sunbathing, waiting for the day to end.
00:35But my plan is, I'm planning, even a well-wisher who has a job, even to plough,
00:46any kind of a job which can help me to get money to buy tools
00:51so that I can start my work and get money for the fees for my kids.
00:59Around 25,000 foreign nationals have left South Africa in recent weeks
01:04to seek safety from attacks and riots that left four people dead.
01:10I never, I'm not even going back to South Africa because look at my kids now.
01:15They are traumatized.
01:17I don't know what I'll be going to do when my kids, they don't want to go there.
01:22Even if I say I'm going there, there they left, they will cry.
01:26Several governments, including Nigeria, Malawi, Ghana, Zimbabwe and Mozambique,
01:32have organized voluntary repatriation flights and buses to bring their citizens back home.
01:37The latest figures mark a sharp increase from last week
01:41when authorities said 15,000 Malawians had been processed.
01:46Most of others are however still waiting for assistance to return to their home countries.
01:51New Year's Day
01:52.
01:53New Year
