CAIPHUS KGOSANA | Arrogant South African security team deserved its Rhoode awakening

The litany of errors in planning the ill-fated flight to Poland and sheer arrogance of the security personnel is extremely disturbing

20 June 2023 - 20:26

A chill ran down my spine when colleague Amanda Khoza, aboard that ill-fated chartered SAA Airbus that got stranded in Warsaw for 26 hours, described how they were almost denied entry into Italian airspace en route to a stopover in Poland...

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