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And up until now I had such high regard for SA government

Uhm... you should brush up on your knowledge of how corrupt the ANC has become. Corruption is a synonym of ANC nowadays.
Your high regard for them should have been long gone a decade ago.
There is nothing South Africa can offer Russia other than empty words. 
We don't have electricity, hardly any potable water and the majority of the population can't do basic maths. >

A nice naval port if they do enough. >

How would a Russian war ship get to a naval port in South Africa? >

Talk about getting on board of a sinking ship.  Really a stupid move South Africa. >

Corruption plain and simple. >

Ok, looks like I’m quitting my planned visit. Shame. >

Botswana and Namibia are cool, though. >

I sense some sarcasm lol. >

No, they're actually cool. >

Good to know, thx. As a German I should probably pick Namibia ;) >

There is a place that has a bar inside the trunk of a tree. >

Sounds good :) >

What does Russia give them in return? This makes no sense. Has someone been bribed? >

South Africa is having an energy/electricity crisis and has a plan to import cheap LNG from Russia. >

Germany did it in 7 months. So I guess a terminal is set up quick >

Germany is a 1st world country that set out to do it and made sure it got done. 
South Africa is a 3rd world shithole with an incredible amount of corruption >

While I wouldn't call it a shithole, I do agree with the incredible amount of corruption. >

I lived there. It's a shithole.
Don't let the nice resorts and game farms fool you. There's the Corpo class who gets completely privatised services and then there's everyone else, who are lucky if they get electricity when they'd actually be home. >

Partnership with russia is going so well for Mali, i mean, what could possibly go wrong ? >

Embarrassing for South Africa >

Seems they are actually proud of it >

As a South African I am most certainly NOT proud of this shit. >

The minister of foreign affairs seems well chuffed with herself according to many articles >

Of course - she's just lined her pockets, after all. >

South Africa is a country in fairly rapid decline.  It's not going to stop anytime soon either. >

I'm just glad that the corrupt government has made their idiocy public. >

Lavrov is slowly tryna assemble the avengers rn >

To kick out one band of imperialist racists in order to welcome the boss level imperialist racists. That’s some South Africa-level of irony. Oh how the turntables… >

When you get a tiny bit of money from Russia, and you respond with. "How High?" >

Lavrov is probably the one guy I would like to see suffer and have an horrible death in the whole world >

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 >

I have only one word for South Africa's current leadership: GROTESQUE! >

As a South African, trust me when I say almost every person in South Africa who can breath and think at the same time is horrified by this. And Naledi Pendor is know to be an absolute doos. >

Why does this feel like Middle School lunch time drama >

Makes sense for SA, since Russia needs to sell its oil, after being cutoff in Europe they are looking into the South African market. Since SA has power cuts they really need a power source to stabilize their economy. If they utilize their ports and figure out how to ship Russian oil to other countries in Africa it could be highly beneficial for the SA economy. >

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Pretoria - International Relations and Co-operation Minister Naledi Pandor has bid farewell to her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov after closed-door talks between officials of the two nations.
"In her closing remarks after hosting Lavrov in Pretoria on Tuesday, Pandor said:"The discussions of today were frank and open, and I am pleased about the progress evident on a variety of issues between our two countries.
In 2022, South Africa and Russia celebrated 30 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, and the Department of International Relations and Co-operation said the historical links between the two countries remained strong.


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Honestly I knew South Africa is too far gone >

And up until now I had such high regard for SA government