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Joseph Upile Matola

United States has effectively barred South Africa from attending next week’s Sherpa meeting

Channel Africa
3 Dec 2025

Head of the Economic Resilience and Inclusion Programme at SAIIA, Joseph Matola, speaks to Channel Africa following the US decision to effectively bar South Africa from attending next week’s Sherpa meeting, citing widely discredited claims.

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