Cosying up to Russia and China harms South Africa, and the world
as Russian missiles were pounding cities in Ukraine, South Africa’s foreign minister, Naledi Pandor, delivered a key foreign-policy speech. For a country that was once a symbol of universal rights, this might have been the ideal time to speak out against Russia’s slaughter of civilians. Instead, Ms Pandor unveiled a new policy, making national interest the lodestone of South Africa’s foreign policy.
If the art of diplomacy is the balancing of principles and the national interest, South Africa seemed to have found a happy medium in the years after the end of apartheid in 1994. Nelson Mandela, its first black president, promised that human rights would be “the light that guides our foreign affairs”.
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