Although he expressed himself in a rather different manner, the migrant relied on the same categories, his words and actions mapping out the tension between "here" and "there," "in- side" and "out," "work" and "labor." Yet his rhetoric used these distinctions to highlight dis- continuities, not connections. Thus he portrayed his past as a set of contrasting moments: those of self-creation were opposed to those of alienation as life is opposed to death, setswana to sekgoa. Imagery, here, was all of a piece with biography. The migrant's response to the contra- dictions of his world was to unhitch the country from the city, to escape from the domain of bereka, and to return to Mafikeng ("here," "inside") to a future of tiro.