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THE FLYING SAMARITAN

HIS Facebook profile is chock-a-block with messages of gratitude: people thanking him for reuniting them with their families, for stepping in to help when they were stranded in foreign countries without any clue how they were going to get home.

“He will always be my hero,” writes one woman. “Without him we would still be stuck!”

“My daughter together with many others is now safely home and this would not have been possible without you,” says another.

For the past few months, commercial pilot Tertius Myburgh has been helping desperate South Africans and Zimbabweans stranded in foreign countries as a result of the global lockdown to get home.

As Covid-19 hit with a vengeance, Tertius had every reason to

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