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"... growers survive a price-cost squeeze that formal wages could not have survived. It let the government avoid choosing between food-price inflation and rural unemployment. It let consumers eat cheaply. The cost of making all of that work was carried by people with no vote, no recourse, and now, it turns out, no protection. When a political movement decided to make them the target, they absorbed that cost too, by fleeing.” https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2026-07-28-migrant-exodus-exposes-the-hidden-truth-behind-sas-unemployment-paradox #southafrica #xenophobia