THE FUSE

The buses left Goedgedacht shortly after four o’clock this afternoon. For two nights our Leadership Academy became home to 88 men from Malawi, Zimbabwe and Mozambique who had fled xenophobic intimidation in parts of the Riebeek Valley. The buses are taking them to Musina and from there each man will somehow have to find his own way home. I arrived home exhausted. It has been a long and emotionally draining week. I thought I would be relieved once the buses had left, but instead I have found myself thinking about the men who stayed with us and about what this week has revealed, not only about the Riebeek Valley, but about South Africa.