00:01He had spent more than a decade building a life in South Africa.
00:05But Emmanuel Akwoko is now returning to Ghana on a government-organised repatriation flight.
00:11The move came after months of escalating hostility.
00:14Akwoko said members of the Ghanaian community increasingly became targets of anti-immigrant campaigners.
00:20Being treated as an outsider on a daily basis took a heavy psychological toll on both him and his family.
00:36It was getting closer and closer to the point that when you are working, a small boy will just pat
00:42you.
00:43When are you going to your country?
00:45Because everyone has already notified you as what? A foreign national.
00:48Imagine a small boy or a small girl asking you when are you going back to your country.
00:53Imagine when it hits that locality, how they will really deal with you.
00:59After moving to South Africa, Akwoko held down several jobs including as a teacher and a barbershop owner.
01:06He is now grieving the future he had promised his family.
01:10This is how they came to do his house. Imagine if they had found him there.
01:15It hurts me. I did not plan. Neither did I also sit down with my wife to say let's go
01:26back to Ghana.
01:27Because we wanted to come to Ghana having made it as we promised our family.
01:33Akwoko also alleges that South African authorities failed to issue him the necessary residence permits, an accusation echoed by other
01:40migrants.
01:40The girl is the one taking the picture.
01:42The girl is the one taking the picture.
01:42So...
01:42The girl is the one taking the picture.
01:45Here's the guy?
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