By Simon Nare
Defence Minister Angie Motshekga has fiercely refuted claims that South African troops on a peacekeeping mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo are in the country to protect the business interests of President Cyril Ramaphosa.
Addressing the portfolio committee on defence and military veterans on Tuesday, Motshekga said it was ludicrous to even suggest that all the countries that were participating in the mission were protecting the interests of one individual.
The minister said it defied logic that the mission, which was sanctioned by the Southern African Development Community and supported by the United Nations, was in support of Ramaphosa’s interests.
She added that 15 heads of state convened in Namibia where the decision was taken to embark on the peacekeeping mission in the eastern DRC where 14 South African National Defence Force were killed in a gun battle with that country’s rebel group M23.
“It would
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