The Cape Town mayor, Geordin Hill-Lewis, and Premier of the Western Cape, Alan Winde, are calling on the national government to impose sanctions on the yacht of Russian oligarch Alexey Mordashov from docking in Cape Town Harbour.
The R10 billion-yacht was last seen in the Bay of Thailand on Monday, 24 October, and has now set sail for the Mother City.
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The Department of International Relations and Co-operation’s head of public diplomacy, Clayson Monyela, has yet to respond.
The Russian billionaire has ties to Vladimir Putin, and Hill-Lewis firmly believes that ‘South Africa should not be offering sanctuary to sanctioned Russian oligarchs.’ Although the United States and European Union have imposed sanctions on several Russians, including Morshadov, the United Nations have not, reports Cape{Town}etc.
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Furthermore, the Ukrainian Association of South Africa (UASA) have announced that they are planning a public protest at the arrival of the yacht. They are calling on the South African government to ‘introduce sanctions that would allow it to seize a Russian-owned super-yacht and to use the funds from sales to support the rebuilding of Ukrainian schools, hospitals, and apartments,’ reports IOL.
This is a developing story.
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