Former Minister of International Relations, Dr Naledi Pandor, has expressed disappointment over increasing criticism against South Africa, particularly from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who announced he would skip the G20 meeting in Johannesburg.
Rubio cited South Africa’s land expropriation law and policies as reasons for his absence, calling them anti-American.‘South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote ‘solidarity, equality, & sustainability.’ In other words: DEI and climate change.South Africa is doing very bad things. Expropriating private property. Using G20 to promote “solidarity, equality, & sustainability.” In other words: DEI and climate change.
‘I think it’s extremely disappointing and of concern. I hope that our minister of international relations is speaking to Secretary Rubio, broadly the State Department, senior officials through the director general of our department in South Africa, really to engage and to inform,’ Pandor said. Former international relations and cooperation minister Naledi Pandor says she’s saddened by the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s utterances that he’ll not be attending a G20 meeting in South Africa. Like his president, Donald Trump, Rubio says SA’s doing ‘very bad things’.…‘I believe there is a lot of wrong perception about our country.
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