When the influencers apologised, it was already too late

The messages started arriving at the South African Presidency in November like desperate whispers. Seventeen young men, ages 20 to 39, were begging to come home. Most were from KwaZulu-Natal, one from the Eastern Cape. They were trapped in the rubble of Donbas, Ukraine, their passports gone and their promises shattered.

by Richard Munna