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© Thomson Reuters 2023.South Africa defends planned military drills with Russia and China
By Carien Du Plessis PRETORIA©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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Haaa Nemui
They couldn’t have picked a more revealing photo as to how Russia views South Africa.
bass4funk
Yup.
RichardPearce
Nelson Mandela said it best, and very directly, when faced with the same sort of questions, by the same sort of people, about the same countries.
EvilBuddha
It has close ties with Moscow, a friend of the governing African National Congress when it was a liberation movement opposing white minority rule
Not just South Africa but many other countries in Africa and Asia were supported by the Soviet Union when they were fighting for their independence or had become newly independent.
That is not easily forgotten, and Russia enjoys widespread sympathy in the global South for that reason.