The racist attitude of the West means this is not Africa's war

The war between Russia and Ukraine is Europe's war, writes Makhudu Sefara

06 March 2022 - 00:02

It was, at first, completely predictable and banal. Isn’t fence-sitting a South African sport? The very reason we seem to be going nowhere slowly. And so, I thought, no-one should be surprised that our government decided to sit on the fence as Russia eviscerated Ukraine...

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