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JJ TABANE | Friends like these: there’s little that redeems South Africa’s foreign policy

The country has lost its moral standing in fighting for citizens in a similar predicament we once found ourselves in

07 August 2023 - 20:33 By JJ Tabane

South Africa relied on a key pillar of international solidarity for its liberation. This means a great deal of the pressure on the apartheid regime came from countries around the world isolating the regime. Among other things, the UN’s declaration that apartheid was a crime against humanity accelerated the isolation of the regime. So how come South Africa seems to have abandoned solidarity in its latter-day foreign policy?..

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