Being rendered 'homeless' and forced to live a life in limbo during the Covid-19 pandemic has led to the LoveIsNotTourism global movement and spawned LoveIsNotTourism SA.
Love follows its own script at the best of times, but the Covid-19 pandemic has added unexpected, devastating twists. As it is, life and love under any level of lockdown pose many challenges to a relationship.
Canadian Laura McMahon, 34, and her partner are among the families and lovers around the world who have been patiently waiting to be reconciled with their loved ones in South Africa. For Laura, it has has been an agonising four months, with no definite end in sight when she will be reunited again with the love of her life, South Africa-born and -raised Jesse Jeffrey, a general manager and student at a business school.
"After months, some have begun to take matters into their own hands. Inspired by the #LoveIsNotTourism movement, the group #LoveIsNotTourism SA was born. We are a group of all ages, creed, and race, who have come together with one common narrative – heartbreak. "We call on the government to stand up for love, for the compassionate and inclusive South Africa they are trying to create. For a future that believes in goodness, equality."
While saving lives is obviously paramount, love cannot be ignored or neglected; Laura feels the government must include the "love sick" in its plans. "Our story is just one of many similar tales of heartbreak and frustration on the website #LoveIsNotTourism. As a group, we feel that our essential need to reunite with our loved ones has been neglected. While we don't believe this oversight is intentional, we do feel it is one which demands the immediate attention of government officials.
"We became intimately immersed in both the best, and the worst, of our two cultures. Through our unlikely union, we learned and grew as individuals. We marvelled over the series of events which had to unfold, just as they did, in order for us to find one another. We felt very lucky, and we were happy.
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