Many migrants risk all to reach South Africa, making a notoriously dangerous journey across the border from Zimbabwe. Having fled poverty and desperation elsewhere in Africa they feel they have no choice. But as elections approach, xenophobic sentiment is on the rise and South Africa’s government is under pressure to tighten the border.

The men who raped Portie Murevesi did not care that she was visibly pregnant.

They attacked her with glass bottles too, she told us, pointing to a large and jagged scar on her forearm.

Now, her pregnancy almost at full term, she is recovering at a church-run shelter in the South African border town of Musina.

“When I try to sleep sometimes, I see what those men did to me,” she told the BBC.

Musina is well known as a place of refuge for migrants who, like Ms Murevesi, slip unnoticed over the border.

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