His remarks accepting the chairmanship of the African Union will raise hackles in Israel and Morocco.

There’s been no official response from Tel Aviv or Rabat to President Cyril Ramaphosa’s support for the self-determination struggles in Palestine and Western Sahara.

But those governments will be incensed – particularly by Ramaphosa’s likening the Trump peace plan for Palestine to the creation  of bantustans by the apartheid regime.

But the South Africa President is getting African support.

Ghana’s Palestinian Solidarity Group head Ras Mubarak   calls the plan a one-sided load of trash.

Moetsi Mohwasa of the Botswana National Front says trying to impose the peace plan would be a war crime.

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