A five-year-old boy sits forlornly on scrub ground next to a petrol station near the South African town of Polokwane as he starts his journey to a country he does not know.
He is dwarfed by a large pink suitcase, carried by his uncle Steve Hove, which his mother, Angela, had packed for him before saying goodbye.
The child is called Brightman and he is stateless. When he was born at a clinic nearby, Angela, a Zimbabwean, did not register him with the authorities.
Instead, she carried him home secretly, making little Brightman one of millions of illegal migrants living undercover in South
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