solitary

Ms Mdluli tried to allay the fears by saying the deportees were being held in solitary confinement in a secure facility.

Both that film and “Anemone” concern solitary men who opted out of society, only to discover that such a plan is difficult to sustain.

It is the birthplace of “rehabilitative” solitary confinement and for more than a century, held some of America’s most notorious criminals.

“Everyone receives soap, nobody is locked in cells all day, no one, in retaliation, is put in solitary confinement,” she said.

A decade after England's men's side solitary Rugby World Cup triumph in 2003, it was the same story.