Africa Business News

President Cyril Ramaphosa says an independent inquiry has found no evidence that South Africa supplied weapons to Russia. The panel rejected claims made by the US ambassador to South Africa that a Russian ship was loaded with ammunition and arms in Cape Town last December. Mr Ramaphosa says it had damaged the nation's currency and reputation. "The panel found that there was no evidence to support the claim that the ship transported weapons from South Africa destined for Russia," the president said in a televised address to the nation on Sunday. The inquiry found instead that the Russian cargo ship had delivered a consignment of weapons from Russia to South Africa, ordered in 2018.