Migration practice is analysed in order to gain an appreciation of the challenges, vulnerabilities, and resilience of migrants. Zimbabwean migrant women exist at the intersections of race, gender, settler colonialism, securitization of the border, and capitalism. The study of the precolonial histories of migration in Southern Africa and contemporary Johannesburg are crucial to analysing the structural and systematic prejudices that migrant women experience. To decolonize migration practice there is a need for bearing witness to the history of Johannesburg and the forces that have made it an economic heavyweight and the role of migrant labour. The end game is not only to recognize the challenges migrant women face but also celebrate and highlight their resilience through gender role renegotiation and mutual aid. All this has to ultimately lead to the decolonization of the politics of migration and belonging, the embrace of social justice practice, and the anticipation of Afro-feminist futures.