PORTIA remains watching over her son in a freeze. EMMANUEL enters downstage carrying a portable radio. We hear the crackle of static as he tunes the radio, finally arriving at a live Zulu broadcast of a speech by King Goodwill Zwelithini. He listens intently, fear written across his face.

KING GOODWILL: The time is now for us to have a say. I would like to ask the South African government to help us. We must deal with our own lice. In our heads, let's take out the ants and leave them in the sun. We are asking that immigrants must take their bags and go where they come from. It is painful for me when I look at the country that our forefathers and thousands of people fought for becoming a criminal den.As I'm talking to you now, there are all sorts of things outside the stores, they brought untidiness to our streets, it's filthy, you can't even see what these stores were [with] foreigners in these areas.