Greek South Africans watch in despair

Niko Nikitidis paces the stone floors of his popular Greek family-owned restaurant, Parea, in Illovo, Johannesburg. It has been a nerve-racking week for the Nikitidis family and South African Greeks, who are keeping tabs on the crisis in their home country. Nikitidis, a Greek national, draws a monthly state pension of about 480 euros (about R6500) from Greece, but cannot access the money after the Greek government closed banks and imposed strict capital controls to avert a run on the banks.