Potential Russian investors in South Africa held a closed-door meeting with South African government members and businesses in Sandton on Wednesday, which was picketed by Ukrainians protesting that: “With Russian trade comes murder and rape.”
The meeting was organised by the Russian Export Center Group, a Russian state-owned agency. The draft programme listed 12 Russian companies as participants. Some are manufacturers of agricultural equipment, while others are in industries such as recycling water and waste, electrical power material manufacturing, manufacturing of oil drills, gas, oil and nuclear energy production, and the manufacture of aerospace, rail, oil-and-gas, navigation and telecom electronics.
The association’s president, Dzvinka Kachur, said they had asked Holiday Inn to cancel the event. “They did not reply, but we’ll keep raising awareness.” “Doing business with Russian companies means financing missile strikes on the residential areas, hospitals, schools, shopping malls, infrastructure all over Ukraine, killing thousands of civilians, including hundreds of children.
REC Group says it offers a wide range of financial and non-financial support for the foreign partners of Russian companies and for Russian exporters. REC Group wrote to Bonang Mohale, the president of Business Unity SA , inviting Busa to attend, in a letter which: “We circulated details of the conference to members, and asked them to register directly. We have not followed up on attendance.”The Russian Antonov in Maputo.
What an awful country we are. Not proud to be south african in the least
Nhlanhla Lux and OperationDudula must come in and stop these foreigners. They must go and picket in their country, ryt😂
I am ashamed of my Country's stance on the Ukrainian war and what the poor people there are enduring. Shame on us.