Delicately poised between Brexit and Brics, the European Union , still South Africa’s largest trading partner, believes it continues to offer the best deal for this country.
Schaeffer returned the back-handed compliment by saying that as a “humble” German ambassador, he had been surprised that all the staff at the French embassy addressed him as “Monsieur l’ambassadeur”, a formality he was not used to in his own embassy. “Standing over the graves and ashes of the millions of young men and women killed in World War II,” De Gaulle and Adenauer had decided their countries should never fight another war, Schaeffer said. Credit was particularly due to France for the greatness it showed in forgiving Germany for all it had done in World War II.
The swap was especially relevant here because South Africa, like Germany and France, has had to overcome its own long history of resolving conflicts with violence rather than negotiations. Both ambassadors felt that the special friendship which their countries had now achieved after so many decades of enmity, both echoed the South African experience and contained lessons for South Africa.
Asked explicitly what he thought about South Africa’s membership of Brics – the Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa forum – Schaeffer said it had been a “huge success” for South Africa to become a formal member of this large organisation representing the emerging world. At a time when many leaders were abusing their power to dismantle the world order and threaten the peace, which Germany and France had worked so hard to construct, such international cooperation was welcome, he suggested.
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