South Africa to investigate US allegations of arms shipment to Russia

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JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a panel to investigate United States allegations that a Russian ship had collected weapons from a naval base near Cape Town last year, the presidency said in a statement on Sunday (May 28). The US ambassador to South Africa Reuben Brigety

JOHANNESBURG: South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed a panel to investigate United States allegations that a Russian ship had collected weapons from a naval base near Cape Town last year, the presidency said in a statement on Sunday .that he was confident that a Russian ship, which docked at a naval base in Simonstown in the Western Cape in December last year, took aboard weapons from South Africa.

"The President decided to establish the enquiry because of the seriousness of the allegations, the extent of public interest and the impact of this matter on South Africa's international relations," said the statement.

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