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78 South Africans finally being repatriated from northern African countriesOn Sunday, it was the turn of 74 South Africans scattered across the continent of Africa.Schafer explained: "On the 15th March, the group got together and formed a WhatsApp Group to coordinate a plan to be repatriated. All their attempts to request repatriation from the South…

EXCLUSIVE | Unscientific and nonsensical: Top scientist slams government’s lockdown strategyShe added the lockdown had taken a terrible psychological toll on many of the people who seemed to be overlooked for repatriation flights, watching flights to and from Egypt leave them behind. Many ran out of money, and eventually had to "make a plan" to…

Covid-19: DA calls on Dirco to use its budget to help stranded South Africans abroadKroutz said: "We came to Lima but soon found out that there was no flight organised. For a few days, we all stayed in an apartment but it was too expensive for me."She is staying with different families in her church…

2020-05-15 10:25 South Africa needs to accept that it is not on a unique trajectory. The virus cannot be eliminated. The country needs to move away from a hard lockdown, writes Imraan Valodia, Alex van den Heever, Lucy Allais, Martin Veller, Shabir Madhi and Willem Daniel Francois Venter.Decision-making at the early stages of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (the…

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