Wow, the truth does get skopped, skieted and donnered when we put on one of our spectaculars! The Peace In Our Time initiative being our first international performance.
An ignorant person might think that the questions and answers are straightforward. No fool, life's not like that. Especially not in South Africa, land of smallanyana skeletons and bigganyana firepools, currency storage couches and tender mysteries.
Did we stuff up the paperwork for passengers, siege arsenal and flights to Poland? Well, one first needs to factor in the racism and white supremacy quotients in order to solve for x. Things are not that simple in Blunderland.
Did the Russians fire missiles into Kyiv or not? That depends on how you define 'fire', 'missiles' and 'Russians'. Besides, from a widely accepted, philosophical perspective: if a missile falls and one does not see it fall, did it really fall?
Did the South African Air Force warn the president's men and women about the need for proper documentation? Depends on how you define 'documentation'. If so, was the warning ignored? Depends...
Were there additional shoppers, holidaymakers, rubberneckers on the not-so-magical, mystery tour? We'll treat that question with the contempt it deserves. Mxm, sies, voetsek!
Does one need to fly over Hungary, from Poland, to get to St Petersburg? It all depends on how you hold the map. Also on one's views on the legitimacy of claims made on airspace by neo-colonialists.
Is it true that this entire immigration and customs imbroglio was actually a satanic scheme to keep South African journalists from reporting faithfully and accurately on the war in Ukraine? As they did on the decuplets, the SARS rogue unit and many South African mysteries. After all, who would you trust more: a biased, bought, embedded CNN, BBC or Al Jazeera journalist or our own jagged-toothed newshounds? Have we not brought into the cold light of day the hidden deeds of murderous politicians, Eskom scoundrels, VBS looters and villains of every hue?
How much did this jolly jaunt cost the taxpayer? A typically white - tendencied question that rides roughshod over the lived experience of the oppressed of the world. Particularly those of African origin.
Is it possible that a journalist or two could get to the soiled bottom of this sorry saga? Maybe, let us, who are not SABC political commentators, EFF gurus, Twitter mystics or sangomas, know the simple truth? Wait, that might spoil the fun. Do you think journalism is for people who can't work their way around a simple riddle or two?
Bugger off, peasant.
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