South Africa: Deadly Marabastad stampede sheds light on struggles of undocumented migrants in South Africa

The story of Chidimma Vanessa Adetshina and how she became a contestant in the Miss South Africa pageant has cast notions of nationality and access to documentation for foreign nationals living in South Africa into the spotlight. 

The reality is that inefficiencies and corruption at the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) have created a powder keg where foreign nationals living in South Africa are forced to live in a state of desperation and as illegal immigrants because the department is…