On average 95,000 Zimbabweans enter South Africa compared to the 80,000 who are leaving.Many of those coming in said they didn't know about the attacks against foreigners because they did not have television.
"The movement of people in and out of the country is as in previous months," said Border Control Operations Co-ordinating Committee co-ordinator Michael Malindi.
In Harper, a township of Musina, a group of Zimbabwean men sleep in the bush and work for R10 a day. Some have been here for a few weeks, but most are new arrivals, hoping to earn enough for the passage to Johannesburg where they will look for better work.
But despite official figures suggesting otherwise, police at the border believe the number of people crossing into South Africa had declined.
"There is a decrease in the number of those entering through the border line and it has been there before the xenophobic attacks," said Senior Superintendent Lindela Mashigo.
This included all non-nationals, not only Zimbabweans.
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