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JOHANNESBURG - Some South Africans living in China have cited increasing mental health challenges amid that country’s zero-COVID policy and anti-lockdown protests.
South Africans in China claim that their plight has been worsened by poor communication from the South African foreign mission to the east Asian country.He said that he had spent 60% of his time there under lockdown. Lungi Shiba, another China-based South African English teacher, claimed that some employers had used the lockdown to unjustly reduce their salaries.
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