As South Africa grapples with the aftermath of June 30, Rabbie Serumula reflects on how immigration, sovereignty and compassion can produce very different versions of the same story.
Rabbie Serumula, author, award-winning poet, journalist.
Every deportation has two headlines.
Sometimes four.
The first reads: Thousands of undocumented migrants repatriated.
The second: Thousands of dinner tables with an empty chair.
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