SA Foreign Policy Continues To Baffle

Farrel — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 14:38:00 -0600

By all sane accounts South Africa’s ‘quiet diplomacy’ strategy with Zimbabwe has been a complete failure. The country continues it’s economic death spiral sending masses of refugees across the border, Bob Mugabe seems intent to ride the entire thing to the bottom and nary a peep out of Mbeki or Foreign Minister Dlamini-Zuma.

So why they continue to think it’s the best weapon in their foreign affair arsenal is baffling and at the same time infuriating as witnessed in our teaming up with China and Russia in voting against a security council resolution that condemns Myanmar (incorrectly referred to as Burma in the linked article) for it’s continued human rights abuses.

If South Africa wants to be seen as a champion of human rights then at some point they will have to actually champion human rights.

Politics.za: SA Foreign Policy Continues To Baffle

SA Foreign Policy Continues To Baffle