Bill Browder: SA's 'shameful' friendship with Put... - Daily Maverick

The Magnitsky Act, which imposes sanctions on brutal dictators and corrupt officials and businesspeople, has been adopted by 34 countries — but not South Africa, because of the government’s ‘shameful’ friendship with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Bill Browder, the US-born British financier and political activist, says he has run into a brick wall trying to get Pretoria to pass a Magnitsky Act. Browder launched and successfully campaigned for … [+7350 chars]

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