Plane carrying SA journalists and security personnel back home

SAFM
19 Jun 2023

The plane carrying journalists and security personnel that was supposed to accompany President Cyril Ramaphosa to Ukraine and Russia but was grounded in Warsaw, Poland has flown back home. Polish authorities refused over 120 South African presidential security guards and journalists permission to disembark from an aircraft for 26 hours. In this interview with SAFM, SAIIA Senior Researcher Gustavo de Carvalho weighs in on the developments that led to this decision by Polish authorities.

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