Some of the policy and political elite have realised that the new world order ushered in even before US President Donald Trump’s second inauguration requires strategic game play thinking, and sensitive communications and diplomacy.

We had swept out the problematic, convoluted, messy overlay of government and ANC foreign policy positions of the previous administration under Naledi Pandor, and switched to a reset of a quieter ANC with a calmer, more thoughtful tone under Ronald Lamola. ..

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