YACOOB ABBA OMAR: What is SA’s national interest?
A new government document spells out the contexts in which domestic objectives are to be pursued
Despite its chunky title, the government’s recently released “Framework Document on SA’s National Interest and its Advancement in a Global Environment” lays out a state-of-the-art consideration of the global, continental and regional context within which the country’s domestic objectives are to be pursued.
It’s a far cry from the elegant simplicity of the Mandela era, when in a 1993 article in the journal Foreign Affairs, the former president wrote that “human rights will be the light that guides our foreign affairs”. Mandela emphasised that SA would be “at the forefront of global efforts to promote and foster democratic systems of government”...
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