At least hundreds of Angolan citizens stranded in South Africa due to the Coronavirus pandemic Thursday launched a request for their repatriation.
The request was made during a meeting with the Angolan ambassador to South Africa Filomena Delgado.
"We are without solutions. We have children feeding very poorly due to lack of resources," they told the ambassador.
Most of them went to South Africa between February and March for health reasons and saw all their resources depleted and had difficulties in receiving remittances from Angola, six months after they had completed the Emergency and Disaster States decreed by the local authorities.
Among the group is Soraia Moreno, who underwent surgery in Johannesburg.
She considers that the situation is unsustainable because they are living on charity in order to get a shelter.
In this regard, Ambassador Filomena Delgado said that the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Health and the Multi-sector Commission for Covid-19 were aware of the situation of Angolans in South Africa.
According to the diplomat, with the reopening of the borders a repatriation schedule solution will be found with the TAAG air carrier.
After the first repatriation of around 500 Angolans in July of this year, Angola's Consular Services in Pretoria, Johannesburg and Cape Town registered 900 requests to return to the country, including students, the sick and schoolchildren.
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