Mbalula has condemned the incident at the Chopin Airport in Warsaw where Polish authorities refused over 120 South African presidential security guards and journalists permission to disembark from an aircraft for 26 hours.
The coronavirus pandemic halted all air travel as government closed borders and inter-provincial travel in a bid to stem the spread of the virus.The coronavirus pandemic halted all air travel as government closed borders and inter-provincial travel in a bid to stem the spread of the virus.
ANC Secretary General, Fikile Mbalula has condemned the incident at the Chopin Airport in Warsaw where Polish authorities refusedpermission to disembark from an aircraft for 26 hours. The airplane was carrying additional security guards for President Cyril Ramaphosa on the African Leaders’ Peace mission to Ukraine and Russia.Reasons that Polish authorities gave for the decision includeMbalula says the ANC leadership is yet to get a report.
“It is disturbing what we see on the news. We don’t have all the facts that we have South African who were not allowed to disembark on the plane … people on that were plane, only after 24 hours were actually allowed. What did they do, that fundamentally a country like Poland would act in this manner on the basis of just human rights and only after 24 hours they could leave, it is disturbing we hope to get a proper account from our deployed deployees about what happened.
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