The uncomfortable fact though is that the ANC actually is pro-Russian and since it is widely understood that the government executes party policy, the assumption of bias is reasonable, writes Bruceps
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A certain chaos had descended on the African peace initiative in Ukraine, or at least in the South African part of the initiative, by late on Friday. An SAA charter following the presidential jet and filled with journalists and a large contingent of security personnel arrived in Warsaw, the capital of Poland and Ukraine’s nearest non-hostile neighbour...
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