The party said upon learning of the people stranded in the north African country, they immediately escalated this issue to the department.
The Democratic Alliance has called on Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor to intervene in bringing home South Africans who are reportedly stranded in Morocco.
Bergman said upon learning of the people stranded in the north African country, the DA immediately escalated this issue to the department. “By Monday morning, the DA had escalated from Director of Consular Services to Director General level as a glimmer of hope existed around a possibility of landing a chartered flight that could be negotiated through the South African embassy and the Moroccan embassy in South Africa, as per other arrangements with other governments such as the United Kingdom and Canada.
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