President Cyril Ramaphosa is expected to send an envoy to the United States to discuss SA’s diplomatic ties with Russia.
Recently, the International Criminal Court issued a warrant of arrest for Russia’s President Vladimir Putin. It’s expected that Putin could attend the BRICS summit to be held in SA in August. And as a signatory of the Rome Statute, South Africa is obliged to effect Putin’s arrest.
Pretoria, however, has maintained its neutral, non-aligned stance, and refuses to cut ties with Russia.
To help us better understand this matter is Professor Chris Isike, who is the director for the African centre for the study of the united states at the University of Pretoria.
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