On Friday, a minister responsible for arms control and a foreign ministry spokesman said South Africa had not approved any arms shipment to Russia in December. “We didn’t approve any arms to ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa >> South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a judge to oversee an inquiry into allegations that the country supplied arms to Russia on a ship that docked ...

The second explanation is that South Africa’s government knew full well it was exporting arms to Russia — whether out of a misplaced loyalty to Moscow harking back to the days of the Soviet ...