'A Russian warship armed with one of Moscow’s most powerful weapons pulled into a port on South Africa’s east coast this weekend,' writes David McKenzie | Analysis
As the anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine approaches, a Russian warship armed with one of Moscow’s most powerful weapons pulled into a port on South Africa’s east coast this weekend. The frigate Admiral Gorshkov – carrying hypersonic Zircon missiles, according to President Putin – has a “Z” and “V” crudely painted in white on its blackened smokestack, just like the Russian tanks and artillery pieces that rolled into Ukraine a year ago.
Anti-apartheid activist and South Africa’s first Black president, Nelson Mandela was on a terror watchlist until 2008 – a holdover from Cold War. Many ANC members are convinced that the US Central Intelligence Agency had a hand in Mandela’s capture, something that has never been proven. Of course, many of the ANC cadres went to Soviet-era Ukraine for their education and training. And the anti-apartheid movement had some of its most powerful allies in the US.
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