Song for Zimbabwe

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (CNN) -- Singer Eli Amor is a Zimbabwean who has found work in South Africa. Like 13 million of his countrymen, Eli hopes the political and economic situation in his homeland will improve. He offered up a song about a greedy man who refuses to give up power to his fellow Zimbabweans in their shared time of need.

CNN's Jim Clancy spent two weeks covering Zimbabwe's predicament at South Africa's Beit Bridge crossing. He shares some of his photographs of Zimbabweans who are crossing over to South Africa looking to buy food or find work.

Clancy even shows us some who are illegally slipping under the razor wire of the border fence in order to escape the grinding poverty, inflation and unemployment rate of an estimated 80 percent.

"What should amaze anyone," Clancy notes, "is that despite all of that, they can still manage a smile. They are truly remarkable people." E-mail to a friend

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