Russian president Vladimir Putin has spoken to his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa amid a diplomatic storm over a US claim that Pretoria covertly sent arms to Moscow.
The rand fell to a record low against the dollar on Friday after South Africa engaged in an extraordinary row with the US, one of its biggest trading partners, over the claim that weapons and ammunition were placed on board a Russian ship that docked off Cape Town last year.
Ramaphosa’s African National Congress accused the US of a “reckless” breach of diplomatic protocol over the claim, made by the US ambassador Reuben Brigety on Thursday.
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