SOUTH Africa’s non-committal stance in the US-led anti-Russian crusade has landed the country in Washington’s crosshairs.
Washington regards SA as a strategically located outpost in the maintenance and spread of its hegemony. But Pretoria’s cosy ties with Russia, and to a large extent China, appears to have reached a point of exasperating saturation in the US congress.
Now, a new piece of anti-SA legislation has been put before the US congress. It seeks to compel Washington to review trade and political relations with SA as well as take punitive measures against Pretoria whenever the country is deemed to have acted contrary to the US foreign policy goals.
The proposed legislation was triggered by the recent joint naval exercises between SA, Russia and China in KwaZulu-Natal. The bill, also known as House Resolution 145, was tabled by a Republican congressman from
