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Dirco won’t pay for people to return overseas, says Minister Pandor

21 May 2020, 2:07 PM  |
Phumzile Mlangeni Phumzile Mlangeni |  @SABCNews
Team South Africa, which is led by Minister Naledi Pandor, will seek to highlight apparent strides being made to implement structural reforms to ignite economic growth.

Team South Africa, which is led by Minister Naledi Pandor, will seek to highlight apparent strides being made to implement structural reforms to ignite economic growth.

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Team South Africa, which is led by Minister Naledi Pandor, will seek to highlight apparent strides being made to implement structural reforms to ignite economic growth.

International Relations and Cooperation Minister, Naledi Pandor, says the department will not pay for South Africans who were repatriated and now want to return to their places of work overseas.

Pandor says the department has been receiving requests from people who intend to go back overseas and want the department to foot the bill. This as lockdown restrictions begin to ease in some parts of the world.

Pandor says the department will facilitate travel arrangements where possible, but will not pay for anyone to fly back.

More than 5 239 South Africans stranded abroad have since been repatriated.

#DIRCO has facilitated the #repatriation by air, of 5 239 South Africans stranded abroad.

Hundreds more have also returned through our land borders.

This means that more citizens?? have now been repatriated than the initial 3637 who had requested repatriation.- Minister Pandor pic.twitter.com/mY1iFXcrXz

— DIRCO South Africa (@DIRCO_ZA) May 21, 2020

Amongst those who have contacted the department are those who hold permanent residency overseas, work or study abroad.

“The one(s) I was referring to that are seeking payment by Dirco for them to go back are those that said to us, ‘I’m in distress, help me get back to South Africa’. Now they are saying ‘I want to go out of South Africa’.”

”We are unable to bear the cost of that. We brought people home, we repatriated on the basis that they said I am ordinarily a resident in South Africa and I wish to be helped to return home. It is the lockdown that has prevented me from returning,” explains the Minister.

 

“We implemented this process to assist our nationals who were in distress – those stranded at airports, students who were asked to evacuate their places of residence as many countries were implementing #lockdown, the elderly & those who needed medical attention.” – Dr Pandor pic.twitter.com/vHpjuEojQy

— DIRCO South Africa (@DIRCO_ZA) May 21, 2020

 

“We implemented this process to assist our nationals who were in distress – those stranded at airports, students who were asked to evacuate their places of residence as many countries were implementing #lockdown, the elderly & those who needed medical attention.” – Dr Pandor pic.twitter.com/vHpjuEojQy

— DIRCO South Africa (@DIRCO_ZA) May 21, 2020

 

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