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Africa Subsaharan
Anger rises over South Africa making millions in US benefits while cozying up to Iran, Russia and Hamas
2024-03-18
[FoxNews] South Africa is under fire for spending millions of dollars talking to terror group Hamas and sending delegations for cozy negotiations with U.S. adversaries Russia and Iran. Some critics say the money would be better spent tackling the "chaos" back home.

South Africa has the highest unemployment rate in the world, rampant crime and widespread corruption, which has led to large parts of Johannesburg having no water for 12 out of the past 13 days, and, nationally, power blackouts between four and 11 hours a day.

The U.S. helps South Africa gain billions of dollars a year in trade benefits through the African Growth and Opportunity Act, or AGOA. Orde Kittrie, law professor at Arizona State University and senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Fox News Digital it’s time for South Africa to be thrown out of the program.

"The ANC-led South African government has, in its relations with both Russia and Hamas, violated the requirement that AGOA beneficiaries not undermine U.S. national security and foreign policy and, with regard to Hamas, violated the requirement that AGOA beneficiaries not "provide support for acts of international terrorism," said Kittrie, who also served as a State Department attorney and policy officiaL
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Posted by:Skidmark

#3  The Mexican Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice

They should know.
Posted by: Skidmark   2024-03-18 07:28  

#2  The Mexican Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice has published its annual ranking of the 50 most violent cities in the world – with Nelson Mandela Bay (Gqeberha) leaping past Cape Town and Durban to be ranked as the most dangerous city in South Africa. The report has been compiled annually for over a decade and lists the 50 most violent cities by the number of murders per 100,000 people – only considering cities with populations exceeding 300,000, where murder statistics are available. In the 2023/24 ranking, four South African cities again feature in the top 50, this time led by Gqeberha, which jumped nine places in the ranking and now features within the top 10.
Cape Town was previously the only South African city to have the dishonour of being in the top 10, when it ranked 8th in 2019, and 9th in 2015.
Posted by: Huputle Cherelet4131   2024-03-18 07:22  

#1  The world is NOT Baskin-Robbins.
You don't get to taste all 31 flavors.

Posted by: Skidmark   2024-03-18 06:45  

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