Some of those boarding minibus taxis and buses believed that heading for their sparsely populated 'home' villages would 'save them'.
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"If I stay in Cape Town, chances are I may end up without any food. There is also no overcrowding in my village, so the virus spread will not be as bad as here in the city." "We’ve seen about a tenfold increase. At this time of the week, we [usually] hardly have anyone travelling. People often start travelling on Thursday evening to attend funerals in the Eastern Cape. But since the announcement of lockdown, people have been flocking to the rank to register their names," she said.
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