With or without Zuma in the picture, the UN vote revealed that Brics is not the united force we always thought it was.
China's President Xi Jinping and Russia's President Vladimir Putin attend a meeting with members of the Business Council and management of the New Development Bank during the Brics Summit in Brasilia, 14 November 2019. Picture: AFP.
However, to his credit, the statement helped to clarify the fact that under him, South Africa would have voted against the anti-Russia resolution at the UN General Assembly last week.Brics was evidently Zuma’s area of strength. Despite being the last to join the bloc, SA was more active in Brics then than it became under Ramaphosa. Zuma vigorously advocated the Brics cause and it was during his time that our relations with fellow Brics member states rapidly strengthened.
Zuma’s statement was, as usual, meant to undermine the position taken by Ramaphosa on the Russian issue to abstain and encourage dialogue between the warring parties.
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