Lamola is recklessly endangering South Africans’ jobs. His foolish conduct in America may well be the final straw that breaks AGOA’s back.
With his ideological “bravery”, he is putting tens of thousands of jobs at risk.
He is the Minister of International Relations, yet he behaved like an opposition populist towards South Africa’s most important trading partner.
He has fulfilled his own prophecy that South Africa should expect the worst.
He will not lose a night’s sleep, but workers will lose their jobs.