SY 14-dag vakansie in Suid-Amerika is ge-strek na 70 dae \u2013 met \u2019n mallemeule van gebeure waarvan een situasie aan \u2019n fliekto-neel herinner. <\/p>\n
Ian Humphries, \u2019n prokureur van Jeffreysbaai, was byna in \u2019n penarie weens die Covid-19 pandemie wat sy wegbreek in \u2019n verlengde vasval-tyd verander het. <\/p>\n
Die reis is \u2019n jaar vooraf bespreek, reeds betaal en sy reisagent het hom by navrae verseker alles sal klopdisselboom verloop \u2013 hy sal terug wees voor enige reisbeperkings tref.<\/p>\n
Humphries vertel: \u201cEk het op 14 Maart 2020 vertrek om Argentini\u00eb, Brasili\u00eb en Chile te besoek. Dit sou \u2019n twee weke-lange vakansie wees en ek sou in en uit wees voor enige probleme voorkom. Boonop sou ek al die geld verloor as ek kanselleer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Humphries is vort na Sao Paulo, Brasili\u00eb. Na \u2019n voldag daar, het hy na Buenos Aires, hoofstad van Argentini\u00eb, gevlieg. Daar was hy \u2019n hele vier dae. \u201cIn daardie stadium was daar nog geen beperkings op enige plek nie.\u201d <\/p>\n
Op 20 Maart is daardie land ingeperk. <\/p>\n
\n Vasval in die vreemde<\/b>\n<\/p>\n
Hy is effektief en bespreek dadelik sy vlug terug vir 25 Maart \u2013 die vroegste be-skikbaar.<\/p>\n
Maar toe begin die spreekwoordelike sneeubal rol.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy hotel het my kom wakkerklop en ges\u00ea ek moet ander blyplek kry \u2013 hulle sluit. Al die hotelle het gesluit \u2013 maar ek was gelukkig om \u2019n AirBnB te kry tot 25 Maart,\u201d s\u00ea Humphries.<\/p>\n
Drie dae voor sy terugvlug, begin die re-derye die vlugte uit Suid-Amerika een na die ander kanselleer. \u201cToe sluit Argentini\u00eb sy grense. Toe is ek vas.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daar was wel op 8 April \u2019n vlug van Sao Paulo na Johannesburg, maar geen manier om deur geslote grense die meer as 2 000km van Buenos Aires tot in Sao Paulo, Brasili\u00eb te oorbrug nie.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk was gelukkig om te kon aanbly in die AirBnB. So, toe leef ek maar daar en hoop die grense maak oop,\u201d vertel Humphries. \u2019n Maand het verloop in die vreemde waar Engels nie so handig te pas kom as wat mens sou hoop nie.<\/p>\n
\n Repatriasievlug<\/b>\n<\/p>\n
Teen 1 Mei het hoop wel opgeflikker toe die ambassades van Argentini\u00eb, Peru en Jamaika beraadslaag het om Suid-Afrikaners met \u2019n privaatvlug terug huis toe te laat vlieg. Teen astronomiese koste.<\/p>\n
Uiteindelik, op 6 Mei \u2013 na 51 dae in Buenos Aires \u2013 kon Humphries \u2019n sitplek op \u2019n repatriasievlug van Turkish Airlines tot in Sao Paulo kry. Maar die einde was nog lank nie in sig nie.<\/p>\n
Die Jeffreysbaaier moes een nag op die Sao Paulo-lughawe vertoef en dan op 8 Mei met \u2019n Qatar Airways-vlug via Doha na Suid-Afrika vlieg. <\/p>\n
Humphries vertel: \u201cOngelukkig word ek toe nie toegelaat op daardie vlug nie, want die Doha\/Johannesburg-vlug was nie goedgekeur deur die Suid-Afrikaanse Regering nie. Gekanselleer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n Transit-area<\/b>\n<\/p>\n
En net daar begin die fliektoneel . . . soos iets uit The Terminal<\/i>.<\/p>\n
\u201cToe is ek gestrand in die transit-area van Sao Paulo se GRU-lughawe \u2013 sonder my bagasie,\u201d s\u00ea hy. <\/p>\n
\u2019n Situasie wat \u2019n mindere man verseker sou onderkry.<\/p>\n
Maar die hoop beskaam nie. Op 10 Mei was daar w\u00e9\u00e9r \u2019n vlug Doha toe. Hoopvol.<\/p>\n
\u201cDie keer het ek selfs al \u2019n instapkaart gehad. Ek kon byna die jet fuel<\/i> ruik,\u201d s\u00ea hy. <\/p>\n
Teleurstelling tref nog \u2018n maal. Humphries is weer nie toegelaat nie, want hy het volgens Qatar Airways nie klaring van sy tuisland gekry nie. <\/p>\n
In daardie stadium het meer as een vriend op sosiale media hul frustrasie uitgespreek dat die regering weer eens vir Humphries in die steek gelaat het. \u201cHy bestee sy lewe daaraan om die armes en kwesbare mense in ons land te verdedig, en ek is geskok oor die wyse waarop die vlug w\u00e9\u00e9r afgekeur is,\u201d skryf een toe.<\/p>\n
\n Aanhouer wen<\/b>\n<\/p>\n
Aanhouer wen wel . . . na tien dae in die transit-area van die lughawe, steeds sonder bagasie, was die deurbraak daar. \u201cUiteindelik op 15 Mei kon ek die vlug Doha toe vat. En toe Johannesburg toe,\u201d juig Humphries. <\/p>\n
In Johannesburg was hy vir ses dae in kwarantyn; alles uiters georganiseerd en agtermekaar. Nogtans isolasie, want kwa-rantyn het behels: As \u2019n \u201cpersoon onder ondersoek\u201d mag Humphries nie uit die kamer kom nie, geen fisiese kontak met ander mense h\u00ea nie, die personeel mag nie in hul kamers kom nie en kamerskoonmaak was selfsorg. <\/p>\n
Drie smaaklike etes per dag is aangekondig deur \u2019n Pavlov-klop aan die deur.<\/span><\/p>\n Die gesondheidsdepartement het sy temperatuur tweekeer per dag kom neem. <\/p>\n Ten minste was die aanlynfasiliteite goed.<\/p>\n Na \u2019n privaat Covid-19 toets, was die uitslae in sy guns, en hy kon die finale been van die l\u00e1ng vakansie aanpak.<\/p>\n \n Uitendelik by die huis<\/b>\n<\/p>\n Nie die ideale vervoer nie, maar ten minste oppad huis toe. Die ironie is enorm: die bus het drie keer gebreek. Eers \u2018n pap band in Vanderbijlpark, toe die alternator naby Ventersburg.<\/p>\n \u201cOns moes vir twee ure in die nag naby Ventersburg vir \u2019n nuwe bus wag,\u201d s\u00ea Humphries oor die laaste deel van die uitgerekte reis. \u201cDie rit van Johannesburg tot in Jeffreysbaai het letterlik 24 uur gevat.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cMaar ek kla nie. 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