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Peter, the United States surely wouldn’t be making a claim or an allegation like this unless there was irrefutable proof? Look, this obviously impacted our relations with the US and to some degree, I would think, with other Western countries but particularly the US. I don’t think we’re breaching any international treaties or anything if we’re selling arms to Russia. There are obviously no UN sanctions on it now because Russia would have blocked that. But it would have a serious impact on our relations.
The response from South Africa so far is to appoint a retired judge to conduct an independent investigation. Is this going to achieve anything, do you think, or is it simply a time-buying exercise? Ja, look, it’s a big step, if they can’t produce the evidence, that’s going to make the US look pretty bad, and if they do, it’s going to make us look pretty bad. What we’ve seen – and there’s a great piece by Ferial Haffajee, my colleague at Daily Maverick, [on Thursday] morning – is it seems like there’s going to be a big fight back from the pro-Russian camp in the ANC, so I think this is presenting Cyril Ramaphosa with quite a conundrum.
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