TRAVEL BAN: Madagascar denies entry to South African aircraft – and it might have something to do with a stash of gold bars

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Madagascar is denying entry to all aircraft from South Africa, apparently due to a dispute over 73.5 kilograms of smuggled gold. And business and tourism are being hit hard.

Commercial airlines of other countries have all been flying the Madagascar route since April, after Covid restrictions were lifted.

Rajoelina is also reportedly angry with South Africa because, in 2018, his political party, TGV, paid a South African company to supply it with aircraft for election campaigning – but the company never delivered. All the other countries had been allowed to fly since April, when Madagascar lifted the Covid travel bans, he said.

“We’re not involved in this. And in the meantime, there are so many South African businesses that are invested in Madagascar. And there’s such a strong nexus between South Africa and Madagascar.” Foster had added in his letter to Ranjatoelina that Johannesburg was also a hub which Malagasy travellers used to visit Europe, Asia and the Americas.

 

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Who smuggled gold, it must be Ramaphosa or his brothers-in-law Radebe and Motsepe

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