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US may review trade with SA over support for Russia

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SOUTH Africans could soon be paying dearly for the government’s cosying up to Russia.

South Africa’s benefiting from the US trade act known as Agoa is possibly under threat after the naval exercise off the KZN coast by the South African, Russian and Chinese navies and South Africa’s refusal to condemn the invasion of Ukraine in the UN General Assembly.

South Africa, with 31 other countries, abstained from the UN vote on Thursday. The same day, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken

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