To many observers, South Africa’s stance on Russia’s war in Ukraine is puzzling. While the country professes to be “non-aligned,” Western diplomats and policy experts point to actions they say prove otherwise. Could a Kalahari manganese mine hold answers?
Moscow reserves the right to take tough measures in response to a missile attack that wounded more than a dozen people in the Russian border region of Rostov on Friday, a foreign ministry spokesperson said.
The AmaBhungane Centre for Investigative Journalism has effectively been stopped from reporting on Johannesburg businessman Zunaid Moti by an interim interdict.