Russia relay — Presidency’s intelligence minister jets off to Moscow a week after the army chief’s visit

Seeing as though we’re discussing BRICS. SA is by far the smallest contributor. What is it other than a group whose only commonality is the challenging of ‘western hegemony’? What have they done other than form a bank? Each of one those economies, other than India, is in severe shit - all failing economies, including China now. Everyone else who wants to join - Argentina, Iran etc - are also all failed economies. Woo hoo for BRICS. They’ve also been advocating for their own reserve currency since 2009… the renminbi is the only plausible one… but the Chinese government manipulates it… who wants that as a reserve? The recent push for a different reserve to the $ is because nobody wants their foreign reserves frozen when they invade a Neighbour. Ahem. China.

Going to verify by Russia if we have a risk factor with loadshedding ?In SA its April fools day every day

You had me at intelligence minister!

how much gold can the government jet carry and do they tell the pilots about the take-off weight? Could see a repeat of the “empty” plane that fetched vaccines but had an emergency because the plane was not as empty as they were told it was…

Something tells me cash and favours are coopting the ANC into being the PR +1 on the arm of Russia. There is no other rational explanation for this dangerous and immoral behaviour from our Government. I would love to hear via a poll what % of SA are for Russia in this war. My guess would be most people are too busy trying to survive to care and possibly don't understand the impact of our govt's decisions, and those who have an opinion are 90% for the Ukraine. You will always get those idiots who live in the 1950s and call each other comrade that might feel the need to defend this invasion by a discredited power, but my guess is those a small minority.

These presumably are the same intelligence leaders who utterly failed iro the kzn riots a few years ago?

Now that David Mabuza is gone, the shuttle service between Pretoria and moscow seems to be non stop. But we are non-aligned! I hope Zelensky treats the African delegation with the contempt it deserves. I mean, the Ugandan president has a lot in common with putin, particularly in the area of jailing people whose gender identity is not ‘normal’. And how do you mediate when one party had broken almost every accepted international law imaginable and the other spends its time defending its sovereign territory and burying civilians every day as a result of the 1st party’s illegal acts of aggression? Good luck to them.

Putin will be holding forth about what to do when he arrives for the convention at which he should, but wont, be arrested. One of the problems with the ANC, is that they think we are ALL stupid - what a bunch of clowns.

I suspect there's much discussion going on about how to swing next year's election result i.f.o. the ANC

No words

Please don't come back.

That is not very intelligent to go on intelligence meeting in Moscow. But she will enjoy the company, and the presentations conjured up by schizophrenic, hallucinating and paranoid Putin minions. Jeez, but the ANC are real "gatkruipers". Disgusting!

"BRICS- a grouping increasingly used as a bulwark to sharpen global division and position China and Russia as leading super powers". Nobody expect this come from Ferial Haffajee. It's disappointing to say the least.

our government only opens their mouth to change feet!