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HAVE FAITH – IT WILL END

HER bags were packed, her passport ready and she was all set to fly home. After almost two months stuck in China in coronavirus lock-down, Unarine Jessica Rakole couldn’t wait to get back to South Africa.

All the 22-year-old medical student wanted was to see her family again – even if it meant spending another 21 days in quarantine in a Polokwane hotel.

But sadly, just hours before she was due to be repatriated along with more than 100 South Africans last month aboard a SAA rescue plane (YOU, 26 March), she got some bad news: she wouldn’t be allowed to fly.

Medical tests had shown she and three other South

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