EDITORIAL: Incoherent foreign policy requires a rethink
24 January 2023 - 05:03
In 1995, a year after the first all-race general election in SA, Nigeria’s military regime hanged Ken Saro-Wiwa, a writer and activist, for trumped-up charges of orchestrating the killing of Ogoni chiefs. Quite rightly, the world was outraged at this barbaric act, and reacted appropriately.
The Commonwealth, the club of the UK and its former colonies, suspended Nigeria’s membership. Commendably, Nelson Mandela, one of the founding fathers of the new SA, spoke out against this crime...
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