Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor has stated that South Africa warned the United States that the bill seeking to counter Russia's "malign activities" in Africa needs to be trashed because they violate international laws.
"I believe the bill should really be killed because I think it's totally unwarranted. I think it is an intrusion that goes against international law, and we have made this clear to our colleagues in the United States," the minister said in an interview.

The draft legislation was introduced in Congress in April by Rep. Gregory Meeks. It passed the House in May and is awaiting the Senate's vote. If enacted, the bill will direct the Secretary of State to come up with a strategy for countering Russian influence in Africa and holding African governments accountable for aiding Russia's "proxies" through sanctions and other restrictions.

"We even met with the drafter of the initial legislation and indicated the offense which we view this particular proposed piece of legislation. We will continue to advocate for that bill to be torn up and not to proceed to any formal stage," the minister highlighted.

On the issue of the US unilateral sanctions, Pandor noted that her country pointed out to the US that it wants unilateral American sanctions to be reviewed due to their impact on unrelated countries.
"We always have a problem with unilateral sanctions and their impact on many countries that fall outside a particular conflict, so we have indicated to our friends in the United States that we really want them to relook at this imposition of unilateral sanctions, which is often not very helpful a strategy in resolving problems," she said in an interview.

The approach has not worked for Zimbabwe, Venezuela or Cuba, the diplomat argued. She said South Africa might adhere to sanctions where it feels that international or humanitarian law is infringed, "but where we feel that these are merely unilateral impositions and don't have the authority of the United Nations, we do not believe that South Africa is bound by them," she said.

Minjim:
This bill was proposed in a US House of Congress.
How does that concern Africa?

If we aren't replying on the US for certain supports.

So, some of you want to continue receiving aids from the US while supporting it's enemies claiming you have freedom of choice?
You can only choose one evil at a time

You simply can't eat you cake and still have it.

“One of the mistakes which some political analysts make is to think their enemies should be our enemies,” he said which was met by applause. “Our attitude towards any country is determined by the attitude of that country to our struggle. Yasser Arafat, Colonel Gaddafi [and] Fidel Castro support our struggle to the hilt. There is no reason whatsoever why we should have any hesitation about hailing their commitment to human rights as they’re being demanded in South Africa. They do not support [the anti-apartheid struggle] only in rhetoric; they are placing resources at our disposal for us to win the struggle. That is the position.”

DebbyParkway:

If subjecting Africans to neocolonialism is a prerequisite for "US aid",
Nigerians can accept it but South Africa won't.
You need to read about the history of South Africans.
Why do you think Nigerians are flocking to South Africa today?




The US is that type of country that pushes you off the ledge and pretends to be your saviour.

They start fires and pretend to be firefighters.

Minjim:



Then go to Russia for your assistance.

I blame our politicians for those Nigerians going to another 3rd World country in search of greener pastures.

I can't leave Nigeria and go to another African country to make a living, for what?

If I'm going to be sending you my taxpayer hard earned money in aids then, My enemy should be your enemy- simple!

SA should tell the US not to send aids to them again instead of all these barkings

DebbyParkway:

If the need arises, I'll go to Russia or China.
South Africa isn't dependent on US aid.
Is Nigeria dependent on US aid?

Minjim:


Seems your Minister did not share your view.

All African countries get aids from the US annually, even Russia does.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/us-foreign-aid-by-country

DebbyParkway:

My question was, South Africa isn't dependent on US Aid.
Is Nigeria dependent?
Unproductive financial allocations is an invalid justification for impeding a nation from fulfilling it's international obligations or establishing foreign relations with other countries.
US aid is an unsatisfactory excuse for subservience.

Require
Unable to do without

Contingent on

Minjim:




If you can do without it, then reject it when next they send it.

If you keep collecting it, that only shows you're dependent on it.

Stop playing with word.

Even your Russia relies on the U.S assistance

Minjim:




If you can do without it, then reject it when next they send it.

If you keep collecting it, that only shows you're dependent on it.

Stop playing with word.

Even your Russia relies on the U.S assistance

DebbyParkway:

South Africa deems these funds to be reparations for the damages done in apartheid South Africa.
The US supported and sponsored apartheid in South Africa while crushing resistance movements.
The apartheid in South Africa shares similar convictions and mannerisms of Nazism.
The anti apartheid freedom fighters eventually emerged victorious with aid and support from the USSR (Russia).

DebbyParkway:
Any individual with your thirst will sabotage his country's interests for paltry unproductive US aids and 2 loaves of bread.

South Africa isn't forcing neither is she on her knees or mandating the US to support her financially.
South Africa has rejected neocolonialism and the US can take the initiative to cease these payments that your life depends on.

DebbyParkway:



For your convenience, please see attached.

Minjim:
The US was the first to abolish slave trade even when Africans were still selling themselves to the whites.

If SA seek repatriation, it should be from the Uk, not the U S.
The US never supported apartheid in SA. The most vocal international condemnation came from the UK and US.

You guys are lucky the whites stayed that long. You blacks have now made a mess of all their progress
The US isn't father Christmas.
It won't be giving aids if nobody is there to receive.

GeorgeFloyd99:


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GeorgeFloyd99:

If you took some time to read the article you attached, you would have been better educated.
How did you miss
"Despite rhetorical opposition to apartheid, the United States continued to block sanctions against South Africa at the United Nations in the 1960s and the 1970s."
The US ending slavery on paper was a result of the American civil war.
America practices a rebranded model of modern day slavery.
The US touts itself as a country that fights terrorism yet it arms and sponsors various terrorist cells across the globe.
Africans had always engage in slave trade before the arrival of the westerners, albeit, with modesty. This is in contrast to the crude and barbaric form of slavery that was introduced by the West.
I attached the meaning of rhetorical for your convenience.
That information was also culled from wikipedia.

Rhetoric = language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content.

Minjim:

Is Xenophobia not worst than apartheid?
You people are worst ruling yourselves than the white left you

Minjim:



Then go to Russia for your assistance.

I blame our politicians for those Nigerians going to another 3rd World country in search of greener pastures.

I can't leave Nigeria and go to another African country to make a living, for what?

If I'm going to be sending you my taxpayer hard earned money in aids then, My enemy should be your enemy- simple!

SA should tell the US not to send aids to them again instead of all these barkings. You must be living in a fools paradise if you think Russia likes Africa. Russia is only looking for validation anywhere it can buy it

Minjim:

Is Xenophobia not worst than apartheid?
You people are worst ruling yourselves than the white left you

Minjim:

Is Xenophobia not worst than apartheid?
You people are worst ruling yourselves than the white left you

Minjim:


Seems your Minister did not share your view.

All African countries get aids from the US annually, even Russia does.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/us-foreign-aid-by-country

BentizilL:

Russia doesn't from US..

GeorgeFloyd99:
History may explain South Africa's refusal to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine


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"Further, reality has many dimensions. And in this case history is relevant. To summarise, the ANC remembers who were its allies during the Cold War, and who denounced it as terrorists."
The West/US labeled the ANC (Mandela's party) and South Africa's current governing party as terrorists due to their fight against apartheid.

"After the apartheid regime was banned the ANC in 1960 it received aid from the Soviet Union for its exiled mission in the fight to liberate South Africa from minority white rule. This aid exceeded that from the pan-African Organisation of African Unity- now the African Union - or anyone else."

"By 1988, sensing that victory over apartheid was coming, Moscow supplemented training in guerilla warfare with training in conventional warfare, including naval and air force training."

BentizilL:

Russia doesn't from US..

bassdow:


Don't also forget, South Africa is a member of the BRICS

Minjim:


Seems your Minister did not share your view.

All African countries get aids from the US annually, even Russia does.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/us-foreign-aid-by-country

ElijahMcClain:
Imagine an Africa without HIV/AIDS (A virus nurtured by western scientists).