Daily Maverick understands that the sentiment is that the dispute over the Lady R has been amicably resolved and that Pretoria wants to maintain its cordial relations with the US. Their stance is that the démarche Brigety faced following his utterances, and his subsequent apology, helped to smo.
The three-member independent panel s investigation of the docking of the sanctioned Russian ship in Simons Town came after US Ambassador Reuben Brigety claimed it was used by South Africa to supply weapons to Russia.
SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa said the three-member panel he assigned to probe the veracity of allegations which implied that South Africa sent weapons to Russia found no evidence to support the “damaging” claims. The allegations made by the United States Ambassador to South Africa in May prompted Ramaphosa to establish the panel of inquiry chaired by…