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Why SA’s silence on Belarus bid for justice?

Sipho Mabaso

IT’S come to a head. The overwhelming majority of the citizenry in Belarus want change. Right now.

In recent months, since the August 9, 2020, election results were announced by the Central Election Commission (CEC) and then rejected as fraudulent by the main opposition party, pro-democracy activists and ordinary citizens of the former USSR nation have ceaselessly protested in their hundreds of thousands in the capital Minsk, as well as in Brest and Grodno, to demonstrate their collective rejection of the election results, and by extension, to send a clear message to incumbent Russian-aligned president Victor Lukashenko that

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