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| Anger rises over South Africa making millions in US benefits while cozying up to Iran, Russia and Hamas |
| 2024-03-18 |
| [FoxNews] South Africa is under fire for spending millions of dollars talking to terror group Hamas and sending delegations for cozy negotiations with U.S. adversaries Russia and Iran. Some critics say the money would be better spent tackling the "chaos" back home. South Africa has the highest unemployment rate in the world, rampant crime and widespread corruption, which has led to large parts of Johannesburg having no water for 12 out of the past 13 days, and, nationally, power blackouts between four and 11 hours a day. The U.S. helps South Africa gain billions of dollars a year in trade benefits through the African Growth and Opportunity Act, or AGOA. Orde Kittrie, law professor at Arizona State University and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital it’s time for South Africa to be thrown out of the program. "The ANC-led South African government has, in its relations with both Russia and Hamas, violated the requirement that AGOA beneficiaries not undermine U.S. national security and foreign policy and, with regard to Hamas, violated the requirement that AGOA beneficiaries not "provide support for acts of international terrorism," said Kittrie, who also served as a State Department attorney and policy officiaL Related: South Africa: 2024-03-17 Congo reinstates the death penalty after more than 20 years South Africa: 2024-03-15 80 bands pull out of South by Southwest in protest of Austin festival’s Israel ties South Africa: 2024-03-14 Iran, Russia and China to hold joint naval drill in northern Indian Ocean Related: African Growth and Opportunity Act: 2023-11-12 AfDB lifts financial sanctions off Gabon after Bongo removed in coup African Growth and Opportunity Act: 2023-11-02 Uganda denounces Washington's exclusion (of it) from trade agreement African Growth and Opportunity Act: 2012-08-29 Nigeria: Obama Declares Nigeria World's Next Economic Giant |
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