“Whenever I look at some of my country mates I see broken souls, I see people who lost hope, wondering if they’re gonna make it home safe,' says Teboho Sehlolo.
Following complaints from a father of one of the South African students stranded in Hubei University of Technology in Wuhan - the epicentre of the coronavirus - that he can’t get hold of his son, Teboho Sehlolo, Sunday Independent managed to locate and speak to the architecture student via email.
“We’ve been on lockdown for almost a month now. Anxiety is taking over, depression is kicking in, our government being unable to help is affecting my mental health, I feel hopeless and abandoned,” he said. “Whenever I look at some of my country mates I see broken souls, I see people who lost hope, wondering if they’re gonna make it home safe... and these kids graduated before the outbreak, and the situation is bad,” said the 5th-year student.
He said he was frustrated because the government wasn’t communicating with the parents about what it intended doing.
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