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Citizens who were stranded in South Africa began to return to their homes, saying they had no job, no food or medicine.
Lesotho citizens entering the country from South Africa at unauthorized unauthorized borders for COVID-19. Image: Nthakoana Ngatane / EWN
JOHANNESBURG – Hundreds of citizens of Lesotho are making dangerous border crossings between that country and South Africa daily to return home.
All South African borders remain in line with COVID-19 level 4 regulations except trade and medical travel, and all land borders of the landlocked kingdom go to South Africa.
Lesotho has not started local testing, but a blockade that was imposed in April was partially lifted to allow all commercial and government services for limited hours.
Citizens who were stranded in South Africa began to return to their homes, saying they had no job, no food or medicine.
They walk on the rivers or use inflatable mattresses.
Prime Minister Tom Thabane has beefed up the army’s deployments along the borders with South Africa, primarily to screen people for COVID-19.
Many of them hail from farms in the Western Cape, the epicenter of the outbreak in South Africa, transiting the Eastern Cape to cross the Tele River in Quthing, Lesotho.
While others are trucked to the Wepener border in the Free State, the Interior Department deported 95 undocumented Basotho from the Lindela repatriation center this week after 37 inmates escaped during a riot.
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