US ambassador to SA Reuben Brigety recently accused the country of supplying Russia with arms and ammunition to aid the ongoing invasion of Ukraine.
DURBAN - African National Congress President Cyril Ramaphosa described allegations that the country supplied Russia with weapons as an attack on South Africa.
Ramaphosa slammed the accusation while speaking to ANC structures in Durban on Saturday, during the party’s National Working Committee’s visit to KwaZulu-Natal.“The American ambassador comes to South Africa and he accuses us, he accuses and launches an attack against us which we found quite distasteful.”Ramaphosa told ANC members that an envoy sent to the US recently explained that the docking of a Russian cargo ship in Cape Town last year was being investigated.
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