Stranded South Africans fly home in lockdown

The world closed down as Covid-19 swept the globe in early 2020. Most countries shut their borders, giving foreign nationals very little notice to get home. Many South Africans working or travelling as tourists in countries across Africa found themselves stranded with no way of getting home. Up stepped a small, daring airline called CemAir. Using a mixture of diplomatic negotiating skills, fearlessness, and an ability to make it up as they went along, CemAir's indomitable flight crews organised many repatriation flights as their aeroplane zig-zagged across Africa, rounding up the stray and grateful South Africans and bringing them home. In this episode, we recount a trip from Casablanca, down the African West Coast, through Central Africa and finally home.