Chad, Août 22 -- What was once considered exodus is now seen by those who remain, as endurance.  

Across Southern Africa, migration is not a crisis; it is a strategy. According to the African Union’s Joint Labour Migration Programme, 80% of African migrants move for work. For Basotho in the border districts of Quthing, seeking livelihoods across the border is not abandonment; it’s an act of preservation.

In the farming town of Warden, South Africa, Mabuza Phoselo, originally from Nkobolong, stacks crates of produce with practiced ease. His brothers are in Cape Town. Their mother remains in Lesotho, tending the family home, alone but supported.  

“I used to work as a shepherd,” he says. “The pay helped, but it wasn’t enough. In South Af...