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Professor Cyril Karabus has thanked South Africa for the support shown to him while he was being held in the United Arab Emirates.
The 78-year-old pediatric oncologist arrived home on Friday looking exhausted but relieved that his ordeal was finally over.
Karabus has been detained in the UAE since August after being sentenced in absentia for the death of a Yemeni girl he treated for leukaemia in 2002.
He was acquitted on March 21, and won the case again on appeal, but his return to South Africa was delayed because he was on the UAE's database as a fugitive from justice.
Karabus' was greeted by Cape minstrels and a throng of cheering people.
