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SA’s surreptitious military aid for Russia is to cross the line

massive miscalculation

OUT OF an unfortunate combination of naiveté and arrogance, South Africa’s ANC government has made a massive foreign policy miscalculation.

In doing so, it has placed the country in the greatest economic and political danger it has been in for decades. At risk are billions of rand in investment flows, many thousands of jobs, and important historical ties with the Western democracies, whose democratic and human rights values we purport to share.

Thursday’s claim by the

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