Plane carrying SA journalists and security personnel back home

SAFM
19 Jun 2023

Authorities in Poland refused over 120 South African presidential security guards and journalists permission to disembark from an aircraft for 26 hours. The plane was supposed to accompany President Cyril Ramaphosa to Ukraine and Russia on a peace mission. In this SAFM interview, SAIIA’s Senior Researcher Gustavo De Carvalho describes Poland’s decision not to allow journalists to follow South Africa’s presidency to Ukraine and Russia as “quite worrisome”.

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