WHILE South Africa’s African National Congress-led government has refused to condemn Russia’s war on Ukraine — preferring to take a neutral stance and calling for mediation — the Democratic Alliance Party’s John Steenhuisen isn’t mincing his words.
He said seeing the destruction of the towns on the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, was heartbreaking.
Steenhuisen said besides showing Ukraine’s citizens that there are South Africans who care, he also went there to build networks, which could help him make informed decisions.
“To put it in perspective, one out of every three slices of bread in Africa and the Middle East comes from grain in this region,” Steenhuisen said. “Cooking oil, they’re the number one producers of cooking oil and fertilizers, which are essential to growing of crops in our own country. There’s been a 300% increase in fertilizer costs in South Africa, which is going to have a huge
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