JUSTICE MALALA: Why Ramaphosa’s Russian ‘mediation’ mission will fail
By not facing up to the truth about Putin, the ANC is coddling a dictator — just as it did with Mugabe
16 March 2022 - 08:15
When a young Cyril Ramaphosa and his ANC comrades faced Roelf Meyer and his National Party colleagues in the early 1990s to negotiate a democratic settlement for SA, it was not a meeting of equals. It was a meeting of those who were right and those who were wrong.
The Nats, in power for nearly half a century, had ruthlessly implemented the racist apartheid system which was condemned across the globe as a crime against humanity. The ANC, in exile for decades, had fought for a nonracial, democratic, nonsexist, unitary state...
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