SA’s foreign policy faces the $8.5bn energy question over Russia’s war
Efforts by our diplomatic service to stay in the middle of the road ignore the fact that this is where accidents happen, writes Peter Bruce
30 October 2022 - 00:02
In the great scheme of things, $8.5bn is not a lot of money. It’s a fraction of what the Guptas stole from us, and Elon Musk just paid $44bn for Twitter. Prosus, once Naspers, has seen its market capitalisation fall $200bn in the last 12 months, to a mere $82bn on Friday, when $8.5bn was worth R154.36bn...
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