So much for South Africa being the continent’s moral authority Does the ANC care that Putin-approved Wagner mercenaries are helping foment Islamist terror in sub-Saharan Africa that claimed around 8,000 lives last year? Apparently not ✒️ michael2day
The ANC remains close to Moscow, recalling the USSR’s support in the fight against Apartheid. But Kyiv also supported the ANC’s struggle for democracy. Pretoria has so far refused to condemn the Kremlin’s attempt to wipe Ukraine off the map, however.
But this “whataboutery” doesn’t excuse South Africa from doing the right thing. It also highlights the moral decay of South Africa’s governing party, wracked by scandal, and tainted by violence with a powerful Zuma-led militant wing, replete with gangsters, that still preaches insurrectionary protests – like the ones in 2021 that saw the homes and businesses of hundreds of poor black South Africans burned to the ground.
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