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While we never got near the assignment we were invited to cover, there certainly was no cover-up of the bureaucratic blunders of the SAPS and the presidency which led to us being couped up and detained in a stationary aircraft for 26 hours.
After almost 20 hours of being stuck at the Warsaw Chopin Airport in Poland, President Cyril Ramaphosa's special forces and a media contingent covering the African peace initiative to end the Russia-Ukraine war, finally received clearance to depart for their next destination.
Members of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa s security team who were due to accompany him on his mediation mission to Ukraine on Friday were detained in Poland, according to officials from both countries, provoking a diplomatic incident.