JOHANNESBURG - Public Works Minister Patrica de Lille has told Eyewitness News that government officials found guilty of placing repatriated South Africans in wrong sites, which were not prepared for
quarantine would face dismissal.
But only 38 made it to the right destinations, while the rest were left without food or water for 15 hours and had no contact with their families. All that Capetonian friends, Leora Nates and Christine Runkel, wanted was a safe return home from the United States. Nates and Runkel lost their jobs at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida when the park had to close temporarily due to the lockdown in that state.Nates said she was disappointed with the treatment they received: “All we wanted was to come home and when we got here, this was the last thing we expected. We were thirsty, we were also scared, we didn’t know what was going on. No one was communicating with us.
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