South Africans favour US – shun Russia in clash with policy bias

By Antony Sguazzin

More than a third of South Africans would choose to work and raise their families in the US while a tiny fraction chose Russia and China out of a choice of six nations, a stark contrast with the government's foreign policy, a survey showed.

The survey of 3,200 registered voters was carried out by the Social Research Foundation last year and released on Tuesday, in a week when South Africa is being visited by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. The South African government has drawn criticism from some opposition parties and civil-society groups for its decision not to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine and plans to hold a naval exercise including Russian and Chinese ships next month. 

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