Complex sentence: Very few young people remain in the villages across the district, preferring to take their chances in South Africa working from one menial contract job to another, and the fact is that the Beitbridge and the border with South Africa makes their trek easier.
Split into simpler sentences: Very few young man and women remain in the village across the districts, preferring to take their chances in South Africa working from one menial contract job to another. The fact that the Beitbridge and the border with South Africa makes their trek easier.