Mbasa Mvenene
Mbasa Mvenene teaches political studies at iYunivesithi Walter Sisulu. He is a PhD candidate at Nelson Mandela University. He writes in his personal capacity.
Bilateral relations between South Africa (SA) and the United States (US) increasingly depict how US coercive power has been less concerned with the veneer of diplomacy since the current Trump administration. In addition to SA’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) case against genocide in Palestine, the National Health Insurance (NHI) Act and the Basic Education Laws Amendment (BELA) Act stand contrary to the policies the US administration seeks to see in SA. The article concludes on the constraints SA faces considering asymmetric global relations, and calls for building local capacity to protect autonomous decisions.
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