A group of South Africans who spoke to News24 is pleading to be repatriated from South America - fearing that a lockdown lasting several months will keep them from their home country indefinitely. LIVE | All the latest coronavirus and lockdown updatesThey join a queue of South Africans scattered in far-flung places around the world, who are desperate to feel South African soil beneath their feet again. Peru experiencesShe said it seemed to them there was a "disconnection" between Dirco authorities in South Africa and the SA embassy in Peru – and the party. "Every time we speak to people in South Africa, they don't know what's going on in Peru. Meanwhile, a British woman, Chloe Lambert, is stuck in Dubai, but desperate to join her South African husband Ben in his home country.

Source: News 24 April 17, 2020 06:00 UTC