Let’s face it, South Africa’s often wishy-washy foreign policy has resulted in unnecessary pressure on the government to stay put as a traditional ally of the West.
The truth is, an ANC-led, post-apartheid government has friends in places that the West frowns upon – Russia, China, Palestine, Cuba and Venezuela, among others. These friendships were formed during apartheid when the ANC, as a liberation movement, was waging a noble struggle to topple the white minority regime led by the erstwhile Nationalist Party.
However, despite Nelson Mandela’s brave insistence that no power should dictate to the new SA who her allies should be, the latter days of ANC rule have been characterised by evidence of a lack of courage in the country’s convictions.
Democratic SA had been correctly founded on the ethos of equal opportunities for
