SOUTH Africa’s sovereignty stands in the dock. Whether we emerge as truly autonomous before the eyes of the world – the jury is out. Recent events that have pitted our country against the might of the hegemonic superpower that is the US has thrust President Cyril Ramaphosa and his administration in a spot of bother.
Ramaphosa recently announced the appointment of a retired judge to lead an inquiry into the thus-far unsubstantiated yet damning claims by the US ambassador, Reuben Brigety, that South Africa has armed Russia in its war with Ukraine.
Brigety was so self-assured in his public assertion that the rand
