South Africa ANC General Secretary exposes BBC’s and Britain’s hypocrisy: Watch
On Wednesday, the UK-based British Broadcasting Corporation’s journalist, Stephen Sackur was roasted by a excessive official in South Africa’s ruling event, Fikile Mbalula over the problem of battle crimes devoted by Britain and completely different Western nations in Iraq and Afghanistan. He moreover indicated and uncovered the hypocrisy of the group and the nation when requested regarding the arrest warrant of Russian President Putin after the Russia-Ukraine battle.
The saga began as African National Congress (ANC) Secretary General Fikile Mbalula in an distinctive interview with the BBC stated that he would wish Putin to go to Africa and that the nation would welcome him as half and parcel of BRICS. The remarks by the African chief about Putin had been made in relation to the Russian president visiting a BRICS conference in South Africa in August. Brazil, Russia, China, India, and South Africa make up the group.
“If it was according to the ANC, we would want President Putin to be here, even tomorrow, to come to our country. We will welcome him to come here as part and parcel of BRICS,” the chief acknowledged.
On this the journalist questioned the chief saying, “You would? You will welcome President Putin here? Right now? A man who is being investigated for war crimes by the International community?” The chief then nodded in affirmation and reiterated that the nation will welcome him as a component and parcel of BRICS. He moreover acknowledged that though the nation was constrained by the International Criminal Court treaty, a head of the state cannot be arrested wherever.
South Africa is required to imprison Putin if he arrives throughout the nation as a result of it has signed the International Criminal Court pact. Even whereas it hasn’t stated it clearly, the South African authorities has hinted that it gained’t execute the arrest order if Putin attends the conference.
“Do you think that a head of state can just be arrested anywhere?” Mbalula cross-questioned the journalist and slammed the nation and the media group for being a hypocrite. Britain and completely different Western nations devoted crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan and no heads of state had been arrested, he stated.
[WATCH]: BBC Hard Talk interview with Stephen Sackur.
A head of state cannot merely be arrested wherever. All we want between Ukraine and Russia is peace, that is what is critical so that the world can thrive.
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— African National Congress (@MYANC) May 23, 2023
He continued slamming the United Kingdom as he acknowledged, “You are making a lot of noise about putting a state in working for peace between Ukraine and Russia and you yourself have failed to resolve the war. Where are the weapons of mass destruction? Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair went to Iraq and claimed that they are weapons of mass destruction. Do you see anybody standing against the United Kingdom or Britain? More than millions of people have died in Iraq and Afghanistan and there are no weapons of mass destruction.”
The ANC chief further acknowledged that South Africa is properly aware what the battle between Ukraine and Russia is unquestionably about and that the nation requires peace. “We want peace and only that can help the world survive,” he countered lastly leaving the BBC journalist pink confronted.
Notably, Mbalula last month referred to the United States as considered one of many worldwide places ‘messing up the world.’ Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last yr, the nation’s insistence that it is taking a neutral stance throughout the battle has raised the troubles of the western world.
[WATCH]: BBC Hard Talk interview with
Stephen Sackur. We are non-aligned within the case of the Ukraine-Russia battle. I met with the USA ambassador, and he has apologized for being overzealous, saying points that he shouldn’t have acknowledged.#ANCRenewal
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— African National Congress (@MYANC) May 23, 2023
South Africa and Russia have an prolonged historic previous of cooperation given the earlier Soviet Union’s political and military backing for the ANC when it was a liberation entity striving to overthrow the racist apartheid state that oppressed the nation’s Black inhabitants.
South Africa has moreover carried out and continues to play a severe place throughout the monetary development of Africa and it is an influential democracy throughout the rising world. The US and completely different Western allies of South Africa on account of this truth are concerned that the ANC’s historic ideological hyperlinks to Russia are presently bringing South Africa into Moscow’s political sphere. Notably, Africa, and China are moreover rising enterprise connections.
Recently, the South African authorities obtained right here beneath elevated hearth on Wednesday for its option to withhold cargo knowledge pertaining to a Russian ship’s go to, which the US claims was used to gather a cargo of weapons for Moscow. The authorities has utterly denied partaking in any weaponry commerce with Russia, however it hasn’t dominated out the idea that one other particular person did so covertly. Cyril Ramaphosa, the president of South Africa, has mandated an investigation throughout the case.
