Stop bailing out South Africa’s corrupt leaders

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South Africa’s current president, Cyril Ramaphosa, has betrayed Nelson Mandela’s legacy of human rights and social justice.

South Africa’s citizens suffer through daily power blackouts of up to 12 hours, days at a time without running water and one of the world’s worst-performing school systems. This is all credibly alleged to be caused by corruption.  Abroad, Ramaphosa aligns himself with Hamas, Russia and a Sudanese-Arab militia leader who massacres Africans.

It’s time for Congress and the Biden administration to start helping South Africa’s people hold Ramaphosa accountable.

Orde F. Kittrie is a law professor at Arizona State University and senior official at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He previously served for more than a decade as a U.S. State Department and policy official.