Rabbie Serumula, author, award-winning poet, journalist. Rabbie Serumula, author, award-winning poet, journalist.
South Africans have become very good at identifying criminals, as long as those criminals have accents.
The chant is now familiar. Mabahambe. Let them go.
Whether shouted at protests, typed into Facebook comments or muttered in taxi queues, the message is simple: undocumented foreigners are breaking the law and should leave South Africa.
It is a fair principle. Every country has the right to enforce its immigration laws.
