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As South Africa enters maximum operational readiness today ahead of the unofficial June 30 ‘immigration deadline,’ the country faces a profound test of constitutional stability. With over 25,000 foreign nationals undergoing emergency repatriation and a R600-million state security deployment underway, the situation highlights the severe friction between a struggling domestic labor market and decades of bureaucratic inefficiency at the Department of Home Affairs. Today on Different Perspectives, I sit down with constitutional law authority and political commentator Dr. Maropeng Mpya to analyze the legal precedents, the threat of economic disruption, and the long-term geopolitical fallout within the SADC region. What happens when state policy is dictated by grassroots anger?