Freedom and xenophobia do not belong together – one must be defended and the other banished

The revocation of the Zimbabwe Exemption Permit, which would have expelled thousands, has now been postponed until June 2023. Clearly Home Affairs was unprepared for the October court challenge and had to step back to avoid embarrassment. But revocation remains on the agenda, an attack not only against Zimbabweans, but the foundations of our Constitution and foundational humanistic notions of belonging together.