Diplomats on mission impossible to sell SA with foreign policy mumbo jumbo
SA maintains costly relations with almost every country but its direction is driven by ANC’s immoral ideology, writes Gerrit Olivier
As confirmed by the government’s recent withdrawal from the International Criminal Court (ICC), questionable ideological pursuits in the guise of national interests dominate SA’s foreign policy. For this, the country and its people must pay a heavy price. The ANC sees itself as an integral part of an "international revolutionary movement to liberate humanity from the bondage of imperialism and neocolonialism". This ideology is articulated and codified in the party’s 2015 national general council discussion documents, the framework of most of SA’s strategic foreign policy decisions. While the mission to create a "better and just world", as the documents state, is a noble one, the methodology is bland mumbo jumbo stuff, utterly unrealistic, pseudo-intellectual and even infantile at times. Much in it reads like a Bolshevik propaganda tract, making it difficult to take seriously. While the US is condemned as a rapacious evil, China is presented as the perfect model for SA to follow. Acc...
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