# The Freedom Front Plus says president Cyril Ramaphosa and minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, must shoulder the blame for South Africa’s exclusion from the African Growth and Opportunity Act. The US will exclude South Africa and Rwanda from the major Africa-US duty-free trade deal next year, over practices inconsistent with the deal’s eligibility criteria. FF Plus says when a country keeps alienating and insulting one of its biggest trade partners while embracing its enemies, despite clear warnings from various sides, it should expect to bear the consequences.
FF Plus says South Africa will now bear the consequences of insulting one of its biggest trade partners