{"id":1007339,"date":"2022-03-01T18:12:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T18:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/01\/south-african-students-trapped-in-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2022-03-01T18:12:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T18:12:29","slug":"south-african-students-trapped-in-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/01\/south-african-students-trapped-in-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"South African students trapped in Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>South African Students Stranded In Ukraine Train<\/p>\n<p>Two South African students were amongst people who boarded a train, trying to flee from bombings as a result of the Ukraine-Russia conflict. However, the train that the duo boarded had to take an alternative route<\/p>\n<p>Amidst the Ukraine-Russia Conflict, two South African students tried to flee to the West of Ukraine using a train. <\/p>\n<p>However, the train had to make a detour as the students received news of bombings on the route that their train was traveling in.<\/p>\n<p>This had led the train officials to try to figure out which route will be best to take.<\/p>\n<p>Media reports state that the railway station in Lviv, near the Polish border, is overwhelmed with requests but has almost no tickets. <\/p>\n<p>ENCA was able to get hold of the students and they had shared their experience as they board this train.<\/p>\n<p>In the interview, one of the students, Vuvu Ntonga said:<\/p>\n<p>It feels like a nightmare, honestly. We are just in the middle of whatever and we\u2019re just waiting to see what we can do. <\/p>\n<p>Ntonga further mentioned that the bombings were not only happening at the military bases but have somehow intruded into where civilians live, which also puts their lives in danger.<\/p>\n<p>Karabo Ramolefo, one of the students, also shared how everyone immediately panicked when the train rerouted.<\/p>\n<p>The students said the reason that they agreed to do this interview, is to get help from the South African government.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/74bb97ee081749a0a0fd18b4918ecfd7\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The students also shared how other African nationals were facing racism at the Russian borders.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/c8c0f557a31847d9b6309c9cde62aa8b\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A concerned South African expat, Hailey Reichert is willing to assist fellow South Africans and other foreign nationals out of the war zone to either Polish or Hungarian soil.<\/p>\n<p>Although help seems to be far from the south African students, they keep on being hopeful.<\/p>\n<p>Source:https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=10160292236871842&amp;id=10227041841<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Lovelyfulue (via  Opera<br \/>News )<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/><span class=\"see-more\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African Students Stranded In Ukraine Train Two South African students were amongst people who boarded a train, trying to flee from bombings as a result of the Ukraine-Russia conflict. However, the train that the duo boarded had to take an alternative route Amidst the Ukraine-Russia Conflict, two South African students tried to flee to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1007340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}