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the news instead of engaging with the South African government diplomatically,” Booysen said.
Dr Yacoob Abba Omar, director operations at the Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (Mistra), said they noted the implications of changes in the US administration for South Africa and Africa, and hope these issues will be resolved in the interest of the peoples of both countries.
Omar said that among the topics Mistra thought would be useful to analyse was what is happening to American institutions, whether the checks and balances thought to be the bedrock of the political system are functioning, and what that means for the US society.
“What are we to make of developments in domestic politics in the US, where shutting down of government departments in the name of efficiency,…
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