South Africa and other countries that abstained from voting against Russia at the United Nations General Assembly in response to the war in Ukraine face intense international criticism. In South Africa, the domestic criticism has been extraordinarily shrill, and often clearly racialized. It is frequently assumed that the abstention meant that South Africa was in support of […]
Author Archives: Nontobeko Hlela
Nontobeko Hlela was the first secretary (political) at the High Commission of South Africa in Nairobi, Kenya. She currently works as a researcher for the South African office of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, a Global South think-tank with offices in Johannesburg, São Paulo, Buenos Aires and New Delhi.