Long trek for South Africans to leave Ukraine

Johan Nel, an English teacher from Cape Town, had only been in Kyiv for three weeks on a tourist visa when Russian forces invaded Ukraine last Thursday

04 March 2022 - 08:37

By Isaac Mahlangu and Nomazima Nkos

More than R30 600 spent on transport, a strained hamstring and a 15-hour walk in freezing conditions is what it took a South African teacher to escape war-torn Ukraine.

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