Jordy Smith is happy to be back home in SA after a two-week delay, which included being stranded on the OR Tambo Airport runway for a few hours after disembarking from a US repatriation flight.
Well, it’s not quite happening yet for local surfer Jordy Smith, who hoped that President Cyril Ramaphosa would announce an easing of the lockdown rules this week.
After 10 hours of flying from Hawaii, via Los Angeles, to Washington, Smith and his wife Lyndall were not assured seats on board two planned repatriation flights. The delay was due to an accommodation establishment that was meant to be a quarantine site cancelling its contract, forcing the government to find an alternative at the eleventh hour.
Daniel Stewart of Drummond was another South African who was lockdown in the US and recently caught a repatriation flight home, having planned to return at the end of March. As an animal behaviourist focused on the welfare and humane treatment of animals, Stewart has worked with leading world health bodies and animal rights groups, and had a loaded diary when he travelled to the US on March 2.
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