With her baby strapped to her back and carrying little more than the clothes she was wearing, Glenda Banda crossed back into Zambia amid growing anti-migrant sentiment in South Africa.
South Africa has been her home for a decade. It was where she found work, raised her family and hoped to build a better future. She told DW that within days, everything she had worked for was gone.
"I came with only the clothes on my body. I had no clothes to change into," Banda said, adding that the local mayor had sent young men to her home to ask the landlord to evict her and her family.
"The landlord was forced to put all our belongings outside and lock the house," Banda told DW. "We had to flee and leave everything behind."
Banda is among more than 100 Zambians who returned to their homeland after anti-migrant protests — some of which turned violent — called for migrants to be sent back.
