Bongani Bingwa speaks to Dr. Rebecca Walker (Research Associate, African Centre for Migration & Society, Wits University) about South Africa’s growing spending on the repatriation of undocumented foreign nationals. But questions remain: how many return? And is the crackdown actually addressing the drivers of migration?

Dr. Walker’s assessment: “A strategy is working when it produces the outcomes it aimed for. Was the strategy to reduce unemployment? It has now gotten worse. We have created our own crisis.”

Listen to the conversation here.