Why South Africa is drifting into the Sino-Russian orbit

The ANC elite is full of Russian sympathisers


South africa’sancanc navy, like much of the country, is dilapidated. Its fleet spends less than half the time on the seas that it did a decade ago. It has few working ships, a result of budget cuts by the ruling African National Congress (). So it makes sense that the country would welcome better fleets that might teach it a thing or two.But the hosting of Russian and Chinese navies for exercises from February 17th-27th is not just a chance for sailors to salute each other. Coinciding with the one-year anniversary of , the operations underline how the government, despite claiming to be neutral over the conflict, is drifting into the Sino-Russian orbit, partly by choice. The West’s resulting frustrations with South Africa show that mid-ranking countries claiming to be “non-aligned” today are often performing a tricky balancing act.

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