About two weeks ago a massive drama shitstorm erupted in both /r/southafrica and South Africa IRL when Burger Ambassador accused ANC of sending arms to Ukraine conflict.
=========Earlier, the US ambassador to South Africa, Reuben Brigety, told local journ*lists in a briefing that Washington was confident a Russian vessel had uploaded weapons and ammunition from South Africa in December.
“Amongst the things we noted were the docking of the Russian cargo ship Lady R in Simon’s Town between December 6 and December 8, 2022, which we are confident uploaded weapons, ammunitions … as it made its way back to Russia,” Brigety said in a briefing to local journ*lists, as cited by the Reuters news agency.
“Arming of Russia by South Africa with the vessel … is fundamentally unacceptable,” Brigety said, adding that senior US officials had “profound concerns” about South Africa not respecting its professed policy of non-alignment and neutrality with regard to Russia’s war.
This “does not suggest to us the actions of a non-aligned country”, he said.
Washington has repeatedly warned countries against providing material support to Russia, cautioning that those who do may be denied access to the world’s most important markets.=====(from article)
It's important to note that most RSA liberals are very pro Ukraine, but this depends on race as well. CoLoureds are all over the place, ANC wingcucks and leftwingers in general tends to suck russian peepee because of the Cold War allegiances, regardless of whether Russia is actually still communist or not.
A lot of the infighting between people in /r/SouthAfrica is pretty r-slurred. Most white liberals support Ukraine and considers the conflict to be Imperial aggession on Russia's part. Many black liberals are in conflict with their black left winger counterparts, because of wingcuckery. Black liberals consider this a moment to call out russia's assault on Ukraine, as staying silent or neutral makes them just as impassive to worldly evil happening across the globe, as they have accused europeans to have been silent on the Apartheid regime for decades.
Thus this is a watershed moment for many black and white liberals, as they realize their wingcuck black leftwing friends are pro russia simply to spite the Western powers like UK, USA or Western Europe, or because they are wingcucked into being pro Russia, and literally demonize Ukraine - a country which has never harmed or colonized Africa. This creates bitter ideological spats between peeps both IRL and on /r/Southafrica.
Point is it's infighting galore. Yet regardless of how pees feel, the ANC government has always been pretty ultra pro Russia, and has overlooked Soviet warcrimes and conquest of nations while highlighting American and Western global crimes like toppling Leftwing govs in South America by CIA operatives.
Point is ANC is now in a bind, they clearly desperately wanna suck off Russia, but America an europe make out the vast majority of RSA's exports. Thus openly supporting Russia would make South Africa a pariah, and doom the economy if America applies sanctions.
Can't find the original post, but drama started here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/southafrica/comments/13elvv6/us_ambassador_says_south_africa_gave_weapons/
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Lot's teeth gnashing and sneeed followed this revelation. It was unbelievable! RSA economy worst in like 15 years, COVID had ravished the economy, and now the ANC wants to pull this stunt?
"I mean for the last 20 years or so the ANC has been on a "become like the NP" speedrun." (The NP is the National Party, the group ruling during Aprtheid)
"This does make me scared of potential sanctions. I hope nothing major like that comes true but at this point man. Why this country is supporting one of their lower trading partners instead of ACTUALLY staying neutral is beyond me."
"Can this please be the final straw that breaks the ANCamel’s back."
I wonder what would happen if South Africa’s major trading partners decide to sanction the country for the country’s “neutrality”
"Hey ANC, what happened to the last SA government that managed to get sanctioned by the west?"
Very soon after the struggling Rand immediately tanked
https://www.news24.com/fin24/markets/breaking-rand-breaches-r19-20230511
Some other South africans were Memeing with some pretty funny posts, mocking the accused weapons send to Russia, and joking that primitive traditional South African weapons like Assegai spears or Kipi shields were to be send via ship to the Russian forces!
More joke post about the Russian ships which suspiciously docked at RSA ports in "broad daylight" while Ukraine conflict rages. This one jokes about common RSA foods
https://old.reddit.com/r/southafrica/comments/13fhvn9/photographic_evidence_of_sa_shipping_arms_to/ 
Some more sneeding as Rand continues to crater. Here's a random crypto r-slur
https://old.reddit.com/r/southafrica/comments/13eexiv/rand_drops_to_a_3_year_low/jjq4f6u/
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America trying to bully the entire world again. We're all living in America.
Nothing the US can do with change the Saf government's mind. What're they going to do? Make the country worse? How?
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America is bullying South Africa by noting how it lied about neutrality, and thus might be too risky/unreliable for investment and acting as a trading partner?
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Let's be real, the US only cares because SAF choose russia over ukraine.
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Of course but that just means the US is extending leniency to people who do it other favors.
Also I’m being obstinate and I can 100% admit the US is leveraging its position of power against geopolitical pawns from acting to their full capacity.
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That's you in every single comment.
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You’ll be happy to know I’m being entirely earnest and sincere in about 51% of my comments.
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And that's a good thing.
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We're all living in Amerika!
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That's a cool video, that moon set is dope
That's right coonsume
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I'm so happy in the CongoPatriceOneal 1yr ago #4211794 spent 0 currency on pingsTill Lindemann be like
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This is what
@Shreddedmanlet thinks he looks like.
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Ur wrong
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I'm going to take your cats away. All of them. You've lost your cat privileges.
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Why wouldn't you leverage your power once you have it? It's incredibly costly to maintain and get.
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really easy to bully people that loose their collective shit when you ask why the 80s were better in their country. At least Germany rose after Hitler to demonstrate the unneccesty of him
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