# Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Ronald Lamola, says Solidarity Movement’s latest visit to the US is a deliberate strategy to undermine the government’s relationship with Washington. The Solidarity Movement, an umbrella body for a range of Afrikaans interest groups, including AfriForum and Solidarity, stated that its primary purpose of the visit to the US was to address trade relations. Lamola told the Daily Maverick that the lobby group has undermined South Africa’s relations with the US because it distorts the country’s Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment and affirmative action policies.
Minister Lamola criticises Solidarity Movement’s latest visit to the US