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SHOTLIST 1. Exterior of Central Methodist Church 2. Wide of church interior with mainly Zimbabwean congregation singing the Christmas carol "O Come, All ye Faithful" 3. Various of congregation singing carols 4. Mid of church window depicting Jesus Christ 5. Wide back shot of congregation singing carols, with man walking in foreground 6. Interior of church communal kitchen 7. Various of people sleeping on the floor 8. SOUNDBITE (English) William (no surname given), Zimbabwean refugee living at the church: "How can I celebrate while my family is suffering? How can I celebrate while most of my relatives are hungry? How can celebrate while most of the people are dying? I think this Christmas is not going to be a celebration to most of the Zimbabweans, but it is going to be a funeral to us." 9. Frying fish in pan 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Ingrid Attawa, Zimbabwean refugee living at the church: "It's going to be terrible, especially back home. I wish maybe at least things could have changed you see, but I think it's going to be bad you know. I even wished that I could be home because I am leaving a family back home, I am having two kids around, so I was wishing to spend this Christmas with my family, but I couldn't manage because things still are not yet fine with me." 11. Tilt up of women and children eating 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Shakespear Moyo, Zimbabwean refugee living at the church: "I wish that Christmas is going to be, at least for us, is going to be fine for us, but I know it can't be fine when that murderer is still there. We are supposed to make our Christmas to be happy, but it is just not. That is our biggest Christmas wish." 13. People singing Christmas hymn "Hark! The Herald Angel Sing" 14. Text in woman's hands 15. People singing STORYLINE The last Sunday before Christmas was celebrated with a carol service in a downtown Johannesburg church that has become a haven for hundreds of Zimbabweans who have fled their nation's collapse. Songs in various southern African languages were being sung in the main chapel of the Central Methodist Church, where despite the upcoming festivities, refugees remained pessimistic about future. William, a Zimbabwean refugee living at the church in the South African capital, said that Christmas would not be a celebration for most of Zimbabweans but a "funeral". Another refugee, Ingrid Attawa, said "it's going to be terrible, especially back home". An increasing number of Zimbabweans refugees are crossing into South Africa hoping to obtain asylum status that would allow them to stay in the country. Officials said an estimated three (m) million Zimbabwean economic and political refugees are in South Africa. The food and cash Zimbabweans abroad send home are a lifeline for a country where food, medicine and most other basic goods are desperately scarce. To add to the misery, in recent months, waterborne cholera has spread quickly because city officials across Zimbabwe can no longer afford to pick up trash or buy chemicals to purify water, and most hospitals have closed. Cholera, which is easily prevented and treated, has killed more than 1,000 Zimbabweans since August. Critics blame Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe for the meltdown in a country that once boasted the finest health system in the region and exported food. Agriculture production has plummeted since he ordered an often violent land reform campaign in 2000 that saw farms go to his cronies instead of the poor blacks he has championed. Mugabe blames Western sanctions, though the European Union and US travel bans and orders freezing bank accounts are targeted only at Mugabe and dozens of his top aides. detainees are released or charged by January 1. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/428b1902fd65750425dfd9f386cc7c1f Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork