OPINIONISTA: SA cements its irrelevance on the global stage with Israel downgrade By Mzoxolo Mpolase
On 3 April 2019, Lindiwe Sisulu, the Minister of the Department of International Relations and Co-operation, gave a speech at a South African Institute Of International Affairs event and announced:We are in the process of following the downgrade resolution of the ruling party and stage one has been completed. Our ambassador is back in South Africa and we will not be replacing him.”
A sham decision, which can be reduced to quite simply, the ANC conceding to every Palestinian request because the party believes “it is what Palestinians want us to do”. In many ways, South Africa fits the profile of an unreliable partner — there is no one thing that any country can be sure about in its relationship with Pretoria. Even in its quest to be seen as a human rights defender, it has failed miserably, evidenced by its first two terms as a non-permanent member at the UN Security Council, where it routinely voted with, and in favour of, governments with reprehensible human rights records.
The reality though, could not be bleaker. South Africa’s position in Africa and the world has waned, it is no longer the largest economy in Africa, it fails to exert any meaningful influence beyond the Southern African Development Community — and the latest evidence of this was the woeful failure to block Morocco’s re-admission to the African Union in 2017.
One also wonders why this resolution seems to enjoy the greatest level of implementation contrasted with other ANC resolutions since its ascent to power in 1994.
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