SA's presidential security adviser said on Saturday the country was “actively non-aligned” in Russia's war against Ukraine, after US allegations that it had supplied weapons to Moscow led to a diplomatic crisis this week.
The US ambassador to SA Reuben Brigety said on Thursday he was confident that a Russian ship under US sanctions had collected weapons from a naval base near Cape Town when it docked there in December.
“We need to explain that we indeed are actively non-aligned as far as the conflict is concerned,” Mufamadi told an online briefing. But a spate of recent events including naval exercises with Russia and China this year and hosting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have raised questions about SA's stance.
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