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Premium: Why this is no time for SA (and Africa) to be “neutral” on Ukraine invasion
As you'll read in the piece below from our partners at the FT, Russia's invasion of Ukraine is turning into local issue here in SA.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is turning into local issue here in SA. As you'll read in the piece below from our partners at the FT, it's not just locals who are angry about president Cyril Ramaphosa's "mystifyingly obsequious" tweet thanking his Russian counterpart for taking his call.
More directly, there is a lot of meat in the half hour interview I had yesterday with SA-based Ukranian Dzvinka Kachur, a researcher at Stellenbosch University (click above). Educated in Kyiv and the UK, she has been here for a decade after marrying a South African she met in Blighty.
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