Chinese government to pay for repatriation of 51 South Africans with wrong visas
The Chinese government will foot the bill for a group of 51 South Africans to return home‚ after they unwittingly became embroiled in a probe into their visas."Good news is an understatement. We are ecstatic‚" Charl Venter‚ a parent of one of the children‚ told TimesLIVE on Friday. "They will be flying back in groups of three from [Monday] at the full cost of the Chinese government."The group had been kept in China pending a court case against a Chinese agent who allegedly lured them to the foreign country with a promise of lucrative teaching jobs. He‚ however‚ allegedly did not disclose to the group the type of qualifications they needed and instead helped them get student visas — despite the fact that they were going to be working in China."Their written testimonies will be taken and the authorities have gone to the schools [where the group was to have been teaching] and corroborated their statements‚" said Venter, adding that their written statements would be sufficient and the g...
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