Analysts say push-and-pull factors and the 30-year rule fuel exodus to South Africa, Europe, and the US. But there is growing tension between South Africa and the west African states of Nigeria and Ghana over the eviction of the latter’s nationals in South Africa. This generates conflicts, hence the birth of organisations like March and March in South Africa,” he said. Another political analyst, Lesiba Teffo said most of the movements globally in the past 29 years “are informed by poor political governance”. “If Mugabe, for instance, did not mess up Zimbabwe, many people from that country wouldn’t have crossed into South Africa because previously Zimbabwe was economically superior to South Africa,” added Teffo.