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Premium – RW Johnson: More own goals means CR’s Lady R inquiry a farce before it begins

One begins to understand why South Africa has never got anywhere in the soccer World Cup. The other side haven’t had to do anything yet but we’re already 0-2 down and we haven’t looked like scoring yet.
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A month ago, the headline to Bloomberg Opinion columnist Bobby Ghosh's view of the African presidential jamboree to Central Europe summed up the global view: "Ramaphosa's Ukraine Peace Mission is Pure Deflection."

Ghosh, ex-international editor at Time, managing editor at Quartz and editor-in-chief of the Hindustan Times kicked off with: "You could almost see the egg dripping from Cyril Ramaphosa's face as he announced an African peace mission to Moscow and Kyiv….he is desperate to distract attention from his economic and political troubles at home as well as his foreign policy failures."

Nothing that has happened during the adventure itself will get Ghosh (or his readers) to reverse such a scathing view. Especially not the past weekend's farce in Poland where CR's security detail (and accompanying reporters) couldn't disembark in Warsaw because of a muck up with permits for their weapons.

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