JOHANNESBURG, South Africa—Iranian warships docked in Cape Town harbor on April 1 in contravention of United States sanctions.
A week earlier, the dock hosted an ammunition-loaded Russian frigate. In February, China, Russia, and South Africa conducted war games in the Indian Ocean.
And now a delegation of senior African National Congress (ANC) officials are in Moscow on a “working visit” at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin, not long after President Cyril Ramaphosa’s administration accused the International Criminal Court (ICC) of “double standards” for issuing a war crimes warrant to arrest the Russian president.
These are the latest moves by a South African government drawing ever closer to countries considered by Western nations and their allies to be “pariah states.”…