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South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the “global south” on the world stage, but the deaths of 13 of its soldiers in eastern Congo Democratic Republic of Congo fighting have exposed an inability to project hard power in its own backyard…
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DRC losses expose limit of SA’s diplomatic ambitions
Lyndia Coby
09:20
South Africa often uses its diplomatic heft to position itself as defender of the “global south” on the world stage, but the deaths of 13 of its soldiers in eastern Congo Democratic Republic of Congo fighting have exposed an inability to project hard power in its own backyard…
