For many years I loathed South Africans who held dual citizenship. I saw it as a cop out. An easy way to escape the country once things got tough. Mostly, I saw it as a privilege enjoyed by white people who had relatives living in New Zealand, where South Africans make up the fifth-largest source of immigrants behind the UK, China, India and Australia — or in Perth, or somewhere in Britain, where it is estimated that well over 500000 Saffers live.

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