# The Department of International Relations and Cooperation director-general, Zane Dangor, says there are no guarantees that South Africa will secure a favourable trade deal with the US by Friday. Dangor spoke at the Kgalema Motlanthe Foundation seminar in Sandton and warned that demands around domestic policies like black economic empowerment are clouding the process. He expressed concern that the US is pressuring South Africa to curtail its sovereignty to secure the deal:
No guarantees that SA will secure US trade deal by August [SOUND]
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