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Fore
ign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma on Thursday again
ruled out any unilateral application of trade embargoes against
Zimbabwe as a means of forcing change in that country.
Asked at a parliamentary media briefing whether this would not be a
good weapon to use to pressurise Zimbabwe, given South Africa is
that country's major trading partner, she said embargoes should not
be imposed by an individual country.
Referring to the sanctions slapped on South Africa during the final
decades of apartheid, she said the call then had come from the
international community.
"The United Nations called for the embargoes; the (former)
Organisation of African Unity called for the embargoes. It wasn't
individual countries.
"In fact, the neighbours were the last ones. There was a
multilateral decision to go for the embargoes.
"No one country can bring peace, stability and solve anything in
another country," she said.
Questioned about calls from within Zimbabwe, by groups opposed to
President Robert Mugabe's policies, for South Africa to impose
trade embargoes, Dlamini-Zuma said government was receiving
contradictory messages on this issue.
"The very same people (in Zimbabwe) have said to us we must not
have embargoes against Zimbabwe; the very same people –
including the white farmers - have said so to us," she
emphasised.
"Instead of the civil society of Zimbabwe saying South Africa
should push, if they really want whatever they want, they know the
multilateral organisations they should be going to, and
those...organisations will take it on," Dlamini-Zuma said. - Sapa
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