Appealing to US for leverage damages Afrikaner cause at home
What complicates matters further though is that the “five asks” are based entirely on what one group of people in South Africa has gone and presented to the US and the Trump administration has taken the representations by that group as gospel truth.
In fact, sovereignty seems to be a foreign word to that administration, hence its audacity to present a list of “five asks” to South Africa, the response to which normal relations between South Africa and the US depend.
The durable path for South Africa is not submission to US “asks”, which are essentially the asks of a minority group in the country.
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