Tough, knowing how much SA spread out in the region for safe havens fighting apartheid.

We also noticed the use of dehumanising metaphors. This is mostly done through likening African immigrants to nonliving objects such as water, cargo or natural disasters that must be controlled. Often the movement of foreigners in the country was described using terms like “massive influx”, “abnormal influx”, “flooding to South Africa’, and "trickling into”, “roaming free”, “descended”, “fled” or “flocked”.