What South Africa’s June 30 deadline reveals about state authority and African integration

The events surrounding South Africa’s self-imposed June 30 deadline for undocumented foreign nationals to leave the country may come to be remembered as one of the most extraordinary chapters of governance in post-apartheid Africa. Yet they should also jolt us towards greater solidarity and unity, and inject fresh urgency into Africa’s integration agenda. Africa has witnessed mass expulsions before. Ghana’s Alien Compliance Order of 1969 forced hundreds of thousands of West Africans, mostly ...

By Caleb Ahinakwah