ANC deputy president Paul Mashatile has hit back at “cynics” who labelled as a “failure” President Cyril Ramaphosa’s recent peace initiative in Russia and Ukraine.
“We note that cynics have, as is their wont, rushed to impose a death sentence on the African effort by describing it prematurely as a failure. It is difficult to understand how these doomsayers expected that a solution to the conflict would have been sought and found after just one meeting,” he said. visited the two countries in JuneThe trip, which was widely criticised, took place as South Africa grapples with an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin.
Mashatile used his opening address at the Brics Political Parties Dialogue at the Birchwood Hotel in Boksburg on Tuesday to slam those who criticised the trip. He also reiterated his party’s non-aligned stance on the Russia-Ukraine war, saying: “South Africa has
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