A holiday filled with souks and lantern-lit dinners in Morocco and a contract in Ivory Coast to bolster the family's finances with visits to rainforests on days off all came to a screeching halt as the world closed down due to the coronavirus.
For thousands of South Africans, who did not make it through the boarding gates before the dreaded travel bans kicked in, the quick interventions that have been made to keep everybody in one place to "flatten the curve" has led to dreadful isolation, and in many cases, financial devastation.
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