TONY LEON: Magnitsky Acts kick in as sanctions against Russia echo apartheid boycott
10 April 2022 - 15:58
Occasionally one of my columns reaches a small but significant audience beyond the immediate readership of this newspaper.
Just on six years ago, in the depths of the Jacob Zuma era and the ANC’s state capture project, I wrote a column highlighting two powerful phrases originating from South America that had been applied to the kleptocracy emerging in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. Both also applied, with interest, to the state of Zuma’s capture of this country and its institutions...
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