South Africa Reports

2023-06-17 20:18:53 Open / Comment

2023-06-17 16:00:33 President Ramaphosa arrives in St Petersburg for second leg of African Peace Initiative Mission

This afternoon, President Ramaphosa together with the Heads State of Zambia, the Comoros and Senegal and Heads of Government of Congo Brazzaville, Egypt, and Uganda, as participants in the African Leaders Peace Mission, will meet with President Vladimir Putin to seek a road to peace to the 16 months long conflict between Ukraine and Russia which has thus caused devastating economic impact, loss of life and global instability.

PresidencyZA Open / Comment

2023-06-17 12:17:59 No flight clearance: President's 120 security personnel to return to SA after Russian trip fiasco

Around 120 security personnel from the Presidential Protection Service (PPS), SAPS task force and other specialised units will return to South Africa on Sunday after the plane chartered by the South African government failed to get flight clearance to fly to Russia.

President Cyril Ramaphosa and other African leaders will meet Russia's President Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg in Russia on Saturday afternoon.

Polish authorities said they refused the South Africans entry to Poland because of faulty and incomplete permits related to the cargo of arms the aircraft was carrying.

Now flight clearance to depart Warsaw for St Petersburg was also refused, meaning that the SAA A340-300, which left Waterkloof Air Force Base on Wednesday night with 120 security personnel and a full airline crew, will return to Pretoria without fulfilling a single mission objective.

– Pieter du Toit, assistant editor at News24, in Poland Open / Comment

2023-06-16 20:54:14 — South African President Ramaphosa:
— "In our quest for peace, we are here to listen; listen both to President Zelensky, and tomorrow we will listen to President Putin."

Cyril Ramaphosa (@CyrilRamaphosa) Open / Comment

2023-06-16 19:35:41 This is how Ramaphosa's African peace mission started: The airplane had to circle in the Mediterranean Sea, as it did not initially have permission to enter Italian airspace. The plane was supposed to fly directly to Rzeszow (where the train to Ukraine… Open / Comment

2023-06-16 15:20:12 Open / Comment

2023-06-16 11:54:51 This is how Ramaphosa's African peace mission started:

The airplane had to circle in the Mediterranean Sea, as it did not initially have permission to enter Italian airspace.
The plane was supposed to fly directly to Rzeszow (where the train to Ukraine departs), but instead the pilot flew to Warsaw.
Ramaphosa's security entourage consisted of +120 people
They were apparently heavily armed
The South African embassy in Warsaw thought that they could disembark with photocopied permits (They required the original documents)
The entourage is still stranded on the plane

Meanwhile Ramaphosa arrived in the Ukraine this morning by train Open / Comment

2023-06-16 10:30:53 Because of this the Polish officials were accused of "racism"

You can't make this shit up Open / Comment

2023-06-05 16:03:45 Two white couples were murdered on their farms this past week.

Pierre & Belinda de Kock near Piketberg, Western Cape, and Hennie & Anneke Claassen near Ohrigstad, Limpopo.

The Claassens were tortured and burned alive before dying. Open / Comment

2023-06-02 16:36:03 https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1664625849516040194 Open / Comment