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United States president Joe Biden’s administration has for the first time acknowledged the economic damage that was caused by allegations made by its ambassador to South Africa, forum on Friday, deputy assistant secretary at the US bureau of African affairs Joy Basu said that the American government recognised the impact of Brigety’s comments.
The US envoy unleashed a diplomatic storm that battered the Rand and made international headlines in May, when he told a media briefing that South Africa had. Pretoria had already riled its Western allies by positing a “non-aligned” stance in Russia’s war in Ukraine. Said Basu: “I think it has really increased the dialogue between our two governments which is good and I think the seriousness of the impact we have heard from the business community, from our political partners and in Washington we recognise the effect.”
In late July, a delegation led by trade, industry and competition minister Ebrahim Patel travelled to the US to explain South Africa’s non-aligned position on the Russia/Ukraine war and to fight for the country to remain eligible for preferential access to US markets through Agoa. “I am somebody who deeply believes in engagement, you can never have enough engagement so I still see opportunity for that and I hope that South Africa with its civil society and the government can engage directly with congress to build that shared understanding and to build that sense of – not only the effects of history – but the way that South Africa thinks about its future.
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