US should react to Ramaphosa’s poke with financial sanctions against him, ANC bigwigs - Joel Pollak

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The frontrunner for US Ambassador to South Africa says yesterday’s anti-US article in Foreign Policy deserves a strong response: targeted financial sanctions against its author Cyril Ramaphosa and wealthy ANC cadres. Johannesburg-born Joel Pollak, the senior editor at Breitbart, says publicly exposing the international financial assets of billionaire Ramaphosa and politically connected cadres including those who benefitted from State Capture, will likely make US president Donald Trump a hero among the people of SA. He anticipates something similar to the overwhelmingly positive public response in America to exposures from Elon Musk’s DOGE project. Pollak spoke to BizNews founder Alec Hogg.

27 Feb 6AM English South Africa Investing · Business News

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