A newcomer to New Brunswick is being hailed as a hero by some of the 166 South Africans and Zimbabweans he recently repatriated from China. Myburgh is a fellow South African expat, who organized a charter flight to get them home, using a laptop and cell phone from his kitchen in Riverview. Passengers heading home to Zimbabwe and South Africa on the repatriation flight from China. Myburgh organized a few more repatriation flights out of the Philippines before attempting to get the South African teachers and Zimbabwean students out of China. Banking authorities in South Africa took note and froze his account, thinking he was laundering money.

Source: CBC News August 13, 2020 09:56 UTC