Being a responsible participant in the global community was once a strength of our worldwide reputation, but not now
International relations & co-operation minister Naledi Pandor, centre, and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, left, speak ahead of a bilateral meeting, in Pretoria on January 23, 2023. Picture: SIPHIWE SIBEKO/REUTERSell me who your friends are, and I will tell you who you are.
From the start of taking office the ANC has positioned itself as sole liberator of SA, excluding all other liberation voices in the process, when this had much to do with the end of the Cold War and a complex interplay of foreign policy changes of many international players. A good example is the naval exercises scheduled for Durban on February 17, where SA, Russia and China will spend 10 days on naval games.
SA voting against a resolution calling on Myanmar’s government to cease military attacks on civilians in ethnic minority regions in 2018 was probably when SA citizens should have awoken from their slumbers and neglect of their country’s espoused role on the international stage. International relations & co-operation minister Naledi Pandor is busy breaking global records in being the ultimate political contortionist. It is clear that she knows what would have been the right thing to do, but produces the most astounding verbal manoeuvres to justify the unjustifiable.
At the time Brics was formed, Russia still displayed some elements of democracy, China was opening up to the global community, and India and Brazil were not yet in the grip of Trumpist leaders. Russia has now irretrievably exposed its imperial stance with utmost brutality, and China is becoming ever more totalitarian.
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