South Africa suspends American businesses and mineral exports - The Maravi Post
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South Africa suspends American businesses and mineral exports - The Maravi Post

I wish I could find another source to confirm this, but if true, that’s basically the nuclear option to kick out all American companies and halt all mineral exports to the US.

  • breakfastmtn@lemmy.caEnglish
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    7 days ago

    I’d be pretty skeptical of this. As you said, no one else is reporting what would be huge news. I can’t find the quote attributed to “a spokesperson for the South African government” anywhere else either. There isn’t a named person in the article. This source seems sketchy, though I can’t find any bias monitor info on them. That ‘from the desk of the president’ graphic is also just kinda weird.

    The closest to this story I can find is this Feb 3rd story from a mining conference:

    South Africa’s Minister of Minerals and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, told delegates in his opening address that Africa should withhold minerals if funding is withdrawn.

    • Skiluros@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      81·
      7 days ago

      ‘from the desk of the president’ graphic

      That graphic is indeed very strange and a massive red flag.

      This is almost certainly some sort of clickbait farm.

    • tunetardis@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Yeah I agree. I came across the article as I like to read up on what’s going on with BRICS countries as that seems like something worth keeping an eye on. But the lack of confirmation is troublesome. Even something like a giant trade deal with China that would give them some standing to call Trump’s bluff would lend some credibility. It could be that this was threatened during negotiations and someone jumped the gun to say it’s now policy? If I see any more about it one way or another, I will update the post.