The United States Alleges South Africa Supplied Arms to Russia — True or False?

So many stories we could turn them into a series on Netflix

This is not the real Lady R (Bing Image creator powered by DALL-E )

First, we have the rumpus over the US Ambassador in South Africa, Reuben Brigety, crossing the diplomatic line by accusing the country of sending arms to Russia.

Oh, in case you didn’t know, the Lady R, a Russian cargo ship sanctioned by the US and known for transporting weapons, sneaked into Simons Town Naval Base with her transponder off on 19 December last year and off-loaded cargo in the dead of night with armed guards keeping curious residents away.

Eyewitness accounts say they saw six pallets loaded onto the Lady R as well. Our industrious (I exaggerate) Minister of Defence, Thandi Modise, who attended the Moscow Security Conference last year with other apparatchiks and sputniks, said she’d have to see the paperwork.

Newspeak?

A few days later she said it was a late delivery of ammunition for our Special Forces (I didn’t know we had any — our army is short of personnel, equipment, modern weaponry and money.)

Apparently this order was placed before Covid struck us down and the government ordered us to stay at home, not walk on the beaches and face jail time for wearing open-toed…